Most efficient way to search in SQL?

Question

I have a database with 75,000+ rows with 500+ entries added per day.

Each row has a title and description.

I created an RSS feed which gives you the latest entri

Answer 1

A few pointers: Drop the * in your select statement and pull only the searched criteria, and make sure to add indexes to the columns that are getting searched.

SELECT `title`,`description` 
FROM `table` 
WHERE `title` LIKE '%$searchterm%' OR `description` LIKE '%$searchterm%' LIMIT 25;