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About the LIKE operator and Index Usage (Doc ID 2930065.1)

Last updated on MARCH 04, 2023

Applies to:

MySQL Server - Version 5.7 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Goal

The query is over some table union that has an index in a varchar field and we need to search with a sentence 'like'. Is the LIKE operator using index?
 

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