I need to query the table for ‘all but keyword’. Using just ‘-‘ doesn’t work, and in fact mysql manual says:
Note: The – operator acts only to exclude rows that are otherwise matched by other search terms. Thus, a boolean-mode search that contains only terms preceded by – returns an empty result. It does not return “all rows except those containing any of the excluded terms.”
The only workaround I found was ‘a* b* …. y* z* -keyword’, as this allows all other results to match. Is there any other (cleaner) way?
Just use: