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I have a Radgrid in my page. A RadSearchBox is used to search and filter the Radgrid. How can i increase the performance when i write the SELECT query with ' LIKE %name%' in firstname , middilename and lastname column in my table. will indexing help me here?

eg: SELECT * FROM name_details where first_name LIKE %ram% OR last_name LIKE %ram%;

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Amrutha

Posted 19-May-14 20:27pm

AmruthaNair

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Mycroft Holmes · Answer 1 · 2014-05-19T21:57:00

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Like does not make use of normal indexes, it can use full text indexing.

Posted 19-May-14 21:57pm

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AmruthaNair 20-May-14 4:31am

Hi,

i am using MYSQL 5.5.. i am not sure whether it has that ppty..