Question

Let’s say I have tree tables:

[ news ]
    id
    title
    text
    date

[ posts ]
    id
    title
    text
    date

[ gallery ]
    id
    title
    text
    date

How can I perform a FULLTEXT search in these tree tables with one query?

I just want to run the search on the title and text fields and get the id, title, date and the table name with the results… Is this possible?

» Update – Most important: I need order the result by the FULLTEXT score DESC (possible mixing the different table results)

Answer 1

If there is a sensible relationship between the tables, join them on that relationship.

If these are really the same data with different identities, maybe they should be re-factored into a single table with a type field.