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FULLTEXT indexes speed up text searching and support natural language and boolean search modes.
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FULLTEXT indexes enable natural language text search. Supported on TEXT, VARCHAR, CHAR columns in InnoDB (MySQL 5.6+). Create: CREATE FULLTEXT INDEX idx ON articles(title, body). Query: WHERE MATCH(title, body) AGAINST("search terms" IN BOOLEAN MODE). Much faster than LIKE "%term%" for text search. Supports relevance ranking. Not suitable for partial word matching or complex linguistic analysis.
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