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• Workaround for UnsupportedAudioFileException ?

  - by tschan

  I'm in a very early stage of writing a small music/rhythm game in Java (via Slick framework, which in turns uses OpenAL, but that's probably irrelevant here). The game needs to read (and playback) several sound files in WAV format, but some of the files are throwing [javax.sound.sampled.UnsupportedAudioFileException] exceptions. at javax.sound.sampled.AudioSystem.getAudioInputStream(AudioSystem.java:1102) at org.newdawn.slick.openal.WaveData.create(WaveData.java:123) at org.newdawn.slick.openal.SoundStore.getWAV(SoundStore.java:713) at org.newdawn.slick.openal.SoundStore.getWAV(SoundStore.java:683) at org.newdawn.slick.Sound.<init>(Sound.java:33) The files can be played back just fine in Winamp or Foobar2000, so this means Java just don't recognize some variants of the file format. What are my options at this point? Note: The files in question are user-supplied, so i cannot just convert them beforehand (using something like audacity). Any conversion steps must be done at runtime.

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• Compiling zlib for 64 bit on windows

  - by Allan Hollenberg

  I am currently working on a cross-platform game for Mac OSX and Windows and I'm having some issues with the ZLib library on Windows 64 bit. My game is focussed on a 64 bit architecture and I am unable to get ZLib to work along with it. When I compile ZLib itself (through make all64 at the source directory of ZLib) it shows no issues but when I want to use it I get a error saying '/usr/local/lib/libz.a(gzread.o):gzread.c:(.text+0x28e): undefined reference to `__errno'' I have included errno.h before I include zlib.h in my project but that doesn't seem to matter. I am compiling my app through the cygwin64 terminal and using the x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++ command, I am also linking directly against the lib64 version (if I remove that it compiles correctly but crashes on running due to it having a x86 lib)

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• C# Container Class

  - by Jamie

  I'm building a game in c# which allows you to script your own level, although I have come across a bit of a thought. I have a base class called "World" as an object. This was made with a simple: class World { However, when the user is scripting their level, all of the game objects will be contained in the world object. I want them to be able to do something on the lines of: World.ParentObjectName.ParentObjectProperty = "abc"; I know that the System.Windows.Forms.Panel and other classes are like containers and can have objects in them and be accessed in that kind of way... my question is how can I make a class which is like a container in which I can add objects to, and then access them with a World.ObjectName I have tried class World : System.Collections.CollectionBase, but with this method, I have to keep typing World.Item("ObjectName") Can anyone help? Thanks!

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• Finding good heuristic for A* search

  - by Martin

  I'm trying to find the optimal solution for a little puzzle game called Twiddle (an applet with the game can be found here). The game has a 3x3 matrix with the number from 1 to 9. The goal is to bring the numbers in the correct order using the minimum amount of moves. In each move you can rotate a 2x2 square either clockwise or counterclockwise. I.e. if you have this state 6 3 9 8 7 5 1 2 4 and you rotate the upper left 2x2 square clockwise you get 8 6 9 7 3 5 1 2 4 I'm using a A* search to find the optimal solution. My f() is simply the number of rotations need. My heuristic function already leads to the optimal solution but I don't think it's the best one you can find. My current heuristic takes each corner, looks at the number at the corner and calculates the manhatten distance to the position this number will have in the solved state (which gives me the number of rotation needed to bring the number to this postion) and sums all these values. I.e. You take the above example: 6 3 9 8 7 5 1 2 4 and this end state 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 then the heuristic does the following 6 is currently at index 0 and should by at index 5: 3 rotations needed 9 is currently at index 2 and should by at index 8: 2 rotations needed 1 is currently at index 6 and should by at index 0: 2 rotations needed 4 is currently at index 8 and should by at index 3: 3 rotations needed h = 3 + 2 + 2 + 3 = 10 But there is the problem, that you rotate 4 elements at once. So there a rare cases where you can do two (ore more) of theses estimated rotations in one move. This means theses heuristic overestimates the distance to the solution. My current workaround is, to simply excluded one of the corners from the calculation which solves this problem at least for my test-cases. I've done no research if really solves the problem or if this heuristic still overestimates in same edge-cases. So my question is: What is the best heuristic you can come up with? (Disclaimer: This is for a university project, so this is a bit of homework. But I'm free to use any resource if can come up with, so it's okay to ask you guys. Also I will credit Stackoverflow for helping me ;) )

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• "Voice trigger" detection

  - by sehugg

  I have a voice application that would be much-improved if there was the ability to use a "trigger word" to start recording audio. I don't need a full speech-text engine, just the ability to reliably/efficiently detect the trigger word. I am wondering if there are any specialized speech engines that support this specific use case, or any libraries/methods to developing such a single-purpose detection engine. Ideally I'd like it to work in noisy environments, but it can be trained for a single user's voice. Pointers to research papers / topics would also be appreciated so I know what to ask for.

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• XNA Multi-Thread Jitters

  - by Ice Phoenix

  Hi guys, brand new question. Just implemented multi-threading into my XNA game as it was unable to keep up with using 1 processor. MT is all implemented fine and everything, however the player seems to jitter all over the spot every now and then. I originally thought it was a loss of data between the update and render, but even when i did the player update in the render it did the same thing. It's not a memory/processor issue as i'm no where near maxing out my RAM or processors. It's strange aswell because none of the other entities in the game seem to have any of these issues. Any ideas at all??

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• Picture changing in vb6

  - by Dario Dias

  I was trying this script from a pdf file.I got stuck where the target image should change to exploding image if clicked but the target image does not change from the standing image.Please Help! Option Explicit Dim fiPlayersScore As Integer Dim fiNumberofMisses As Integer Dim fbTargetHit As Boolean Private Sub Form_Load() Randomize imgTarget.Enabled = False imgTarget.Visible = False cmdStop.Enabled = False lblGameOver.Visible = False lblGameOver.Enabled = False End Sub Private Sub cmdStart_Click() Dim lsUserResponse As String Dim lbResponse As Boolean lsUserResponse = InputBox("Enter a level from 1 to 3." & _ (Chr(13)) & "" & (Chr(13)) & "1 being the Easiest and 3 being the " & _ "Hardest.", "Level Select", "1") lbResponse = False If lsUserResponse = "1" Then Timer1.Interval = 1500 lbResponse = True ElseIf lsUserResponse = "2" Then Timer1.Interval = 1000 lbResponse = True ElseIf lsUserResponse = "3" Then Timer1.Interval = 750 lbResponse = True Else MsgBox ("Game Not Started.") lbResponse = False End If If lbResponse = True Then cmdStart.Enabled = False imgTarget.Picture = imgStanding.Picture frmMain.MousePointer = 5 fbTargetHit = False Load_Sounds cmdStop.Enabled = True fiPlayersScore = 0 fiNumberofMisses = 0 lblScore.Caption = fiPlayersScore lblMisses.Caption = fiNumberofMisses Timer1.Enabled = True lblGameOver.Visible = False lblGameOver.Enabled = False End If End Sub Private Sub cmdStop_Click() Unload_Sounds frmMain.MousePointer = vbNormal Timer1.Enabled = False imgTarget.Enabled = False imgTarget.Visible = False cmdStart.Enabled = True cmdStop.Enabled = False cmdStart.SetFocus lblGameOver.Visible = True lblGameOver.Enabled = True End Sub Private Sub Form_Click() MMControl1.Command = "Play" MMControl1.Command = "Prev" fiNumberofMisses = fiNumberofMisses + 1 lblMisses.Caption = fiNumberofMisses If CheckForLoose = True Then cmdStop_Click lblMisses.Caption = fiNumberofMisses Exit Sub End If End Sub Private Sub imgTarget_Click() MMControl2.Command = "Play" MMControl2.Command = "Prev" Timer1.Enabled = False imgTarget.Picture = imgExplode.Picture '**I AM STUCK HERE** pauseProgram fiPlayersScore = fiPlayersScore + 1 Timer1.Enabled = True If CheckForWin = True Then cmdStop_Click lblScore.Caption = fiPlayersScore Exit Sub End If lblScore.Caption = fiPlayersScore fbTargetHit = True imgStanding.Enabled = False imgTarget.Visible = False imgTarget.Enabled = False Timer1.Enabled = True End Sub Public Sub Load_Sounds() 'Set initial property values for blaster sound MMControl1.Notify = False MMControl1.Wait = True MMControl1.Shareable = False MMControl1.DeviceType = "WaveAudio" MMControl1.FileName = _ "C:\Temp\Sounds\Blaster_1.wav" 'Open the media device MMControl1.Command = "Open" 'Set initial property values for grunt sound MMControl2.Notify = False MMControl2.Wait = True MMControl2.Shareable = False MMControl2.DeviceType = "WaveAudio" MMControl2.FileName = _ "C:\Temp\Sounds\Pain_Grunt_4.wav" 'Open the media device MMControl2.Command = "Open" End Sub Private Sub Timer1_Timer() Dim liRandomLeft As Integer Dim liRandomTop As Integer imgTarget.Visible = True If fbTargetHit = True Then fbTargetHit = False 'imgTarget.Picture = imgStanding.Picture End If liRandomLeft = (6120 * Rnd) liRandomTop = (4680 * Rnd) imgTarget.Left = liRandomLeft imgTarget.Top = liRandomTop imgTarget.Enabled = True imgTarget.Visible = True End Sub Public Function CheckForWin() As Boolean CheckForWin = False If fiPlayersScore = 5 Then CheckForWin = True lblGameOver.Caption = "You Win.Game Over" End If End Function Public Function CheckForLoose() As Boolean CheckForLoose = False If fiNumberofMisses = 5 Then CheckForLoose = True lblGameOver.Caption = "You Loose.Game Over" End If End Function Private Sub Form_QueryUnload(Cancel As Integer, _ UnloadMode As Integer) Unload_Sounds End Sub Public Sub Unload_Sounds() MMControl1.Command = "Close" MMControl2.Command = "Close" End Sub Public Sub pauseProgram() Dim currentTime Dim newTime currentTime = Second(Time) newTime = Second(Time) Do Until Abs(newTime - currentTime) = 1 newTime = Second(Time) Loop End Sub

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• creating a custom odbc driver for application

  - by neddy

  Ok, i have a simple database engine (its a proprietary product written in vb6) for one of my applications... i'd like to create an ODBC driver for it so i can use some of my other applications (which require a database) with my database engine rather than microsoft sql (which they are currently using).... Does anyone have any heads up on how to develop an ODBC driver (preferably in vb6) ... i'v spent the last few hours googling it and havnt had much luck... about the best thing i have found so far is: http://www.datadirect.com/products/openaccess/index.ssp but i dont exactly want to go buying an SDK to write an ODBC driver... Cheers in advance,

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• Bitmap size exceeds VM budget after second load

  - by jonny

  This is driving me crazy. I have a game which has a bitmap as the background, this is big so I scale it down and this works fine. However when I navigate to another activity and then reload the game screen it crashes on drawing the background. I am calling recycle on all the bitmaps and setting them to null on onDestroy() but this doesn't help. Any ideas and if not how can I debug the memory to see at which step its growing. I looked at getting the heap but nothing of any size is on there really. Thanks.

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• What did they program this toy with?

  - by Trix

  A rather strange question: I'm often asking myself with what programming languages things were created. I recently found this toy mini computer I played with when I was 13 or so at home. (Note: It is not one of those toy "notebooks", it's really small and came as an extra with a magazine) "Features": Hadware: LCD with a small field of pixels where the games were going on, besides that some stats such as score, highscore etc. Sounds and horrible music when started A really small "keyboard" with a wire Software: At least 14 or so games, from Snake over Tetris and Breakdown to some abomination of a car racing game A calculator Game selecting menu An alarm clock Inside there is a really small circuit board, I don't want to open the thing up now, though. Can you imagine if the games and "Operating System" of this thing where actually programmed using a language? If yes, what language could it be? If not with a programming language, how else was it created?

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• SQL Database dilemma : Optimize for Querying or Writing?

  - by Harry

  I'm working on a personal project (Search engine) and have a bit of a dilemma. At the moment it is optimized for writing data to the search index and significantly slow for search queries. The DTA (Database Engine Tuning Adviser) recommends adding a couple of Indexed views inorder to speed up search queries. But this is to the detriment of writing new data to the DB. It seems I can't have one without the other! This is obviously not a new problem. What is a good strategy for this issue?

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• some thing wrong with memory?

  - by Rocker

  Hi there I am developing a game using Cocos2D. I got some error out of sudden after few time successfully played the game. And When i debugged it gives the error called EXC_BAD_ACCESS. here is the code. -(void) winGame { //the debug stopped here... WinningScene *winner = [WinningScene node]; [[Director sharedDirector] replaceScene:[FadeTransition transitionWithDuration:1.0 scene:winner]]; } if ((touchCount > 0 && touchCount ==2) && (rangeY2 > 0.0 && rangeY2 < 20.0)) { bras++; if (bras == 1) { //[self winGame]; [self runAction:[Sequence actionOne:[DelayTime actionWithDuration:0.5] two: [CallFunc actionWithTarget:self selector:@selector(winGame)]]]; } Could u guys tell me why ?

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• best place to store .net assemblies

  - by stackoverflow

  To give a scenario, let us simply assume an engine that loads plug-ins and exposes features in the plug-in. User 1 uploads a plug-in which allows implements Act 1 User 2 uploads a plug-in which allows implements Act 2 A plug-in in this case is .net assembly. Now in this scenario, if we have to store all the assemblies - what would be the best place? Also, the plug-in would require to be versioned so execution can happen of a particular version. Further considering the plug-in engine is installed on multiple machines or on same machine as different instances (similar to sql server). Would a centralized database (sql server 2005) with a table to store all the assembly be a good idea (centralized backup etc.,) (assembly size would be around 500kb to 1MB)

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• c# error when using the Database.cs files

  - by Kumu

  Inconsistent accessibility: parameter type 'FoolballLeague.FootballLeagueDatabase' is less accessible than method 'FoolballLeague.MainMenu.MainMenu(FoolballLeague.FootballLeagueDatabase)' C:\Users\achini\Desktop\FootballLeague\FootballLeague\MainMenu.cs I have got this error when I insert this part to the code //public MainMenu(FootballLeagueDatabase footballLeagueDatabaseIn) //{ //InitializeComponent(); //footballLeagueDatabase = footballLeagueDatabaseIn; //} The whole code of the first part is as following, But I dont know what do I need to do to sort out this error. public partial class MainMenu : Form { FootballLeagueDatabase footballLeagueDatabase; Game game; Login login; public MainMenu() { InitializeComponent(); changePanel(1); } //public MainMenu(FootballLeagueDatabase footballLeagueDatabaseIn) //{ //InitializeComponent(); //footballLeagueDatabase = footballLeagueDatabaseIn; //} If you have any idea please let me know, I need this part to the system.

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• Is it bad for SEO to have an 'article' published under 2 urls?

  - by Alichad

  Hi, On our new website we publish an article once and can tag it to appear in several sections eg. blahblah.com/insight/10-05-21/Buzzcity-releases-mobile-game-library.aspx blahblah.com/international_media/10-05-21/Buzzcity-releases-mobile-game-library.aspx Is it better for SEO to have the 2 different urls which include important keywords like ‘insight’ and ‘international media’ or is it better to have a single generic url? E.g. blahblah.com/articles/10-05-21/Buzzcity_releases_mobile_game_library.aspx I read somewhere that google doesn’t like the same content ‘duplicated’ in 2 (or 3) places - I am not a tecchie. THanks

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• Java : VolatileImage slower than BufferedImage.

  - by Norswap

  I'm making a game in java and in used BufferedImages to render content to the screen. I had performance issues on low end machines where the game is supposed to run, so I switched to VolatileImage which are normally faster. Except they actually slow the whole thing down. The images are created with GraphicsConfiguration.createCompatibleVolatileImage(...) and are drawn to the screen with Graphics.drawImage(...) (follow link to see which one specifically). They are drawn upon a Canvas using double buffering. Does someone has an idea of what is going wrong here ?

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• Some help needed with a SQL query

  - by Psyche

  Hello, I need some help with a MySQL query. I have two tables, one with offers and one with statuses. An offer can has one or more statuses. What I would like to do is get all the offers and their latest status. For each status there's a table field named 'added' which can be used for sorting. I know this can be easily done with two queries, but I need to make it with only one because I also have to apply some filters later in the project. Here's my setup: CREATE TABLE `test`.`offers` ( `id` INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY , `client` TEXT NOT NULL , `products` TEXT NOT NULL , `contact` TEXT NOT NULL ) ENGINE = MYISAM ; CREATE TABLE `statuses` ( `id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `offer_id` int(11) NOT NULL, `options` text NOT NULL, `deadline` date NOT NULL, `added` datetime NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`id`) ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1

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• Change master table PK and update related table FK (changing PK from Autoincrement to UUID on Mysql)

  - by eleonzx

  I have two related tables: Groups and Clients. Clients belongs to Groups so I have a foreign key "group_id" that references the group a client belongs to. I'm changing the Group id from an autoincrement to a UUID. So what I need is to generate a UUID for each Group and update the Clients table at once to reflect the changes and keep the records related. Is there a way to do this with multiple-table update on MySQL? Adding tables definitions for clarification. CREATE TABLE `groups` ( `id` char(36) NOT NULL, `name` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL, `created` datetime DEFAULT NULL, `modified` datetime DEFAULT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`id`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8$$ CREATE TABLE `clients` ( `id` char(36) NOT NULL, `name` varchar(255) NOT NULL, `group_id` char(36) DEFAULT NULL, `active` tinyint(1) DEFAULT '1' PRIMARY KEY (`id`), KEY `fkgp` (`group_id`), CONSTRAINT `fkgp` FOREIGN KEY (`group_id`) REFERENCES `groups` (`id`) ON DELETE NO ACTION ON UPDATE CASCADE ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8$$

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• Send data to server with GET

  - by coderjoe

  I have made a site where all my highscores from my game are shown. I send the scores from my iphone game to my site using a script made with php. The script works, because if I enter the link produced by my app in my browser the score is added. However I want to send the scores from my app. The script is using the GET method to get name, scores etcetera. This is what i have now: NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:urlString]]; NSError * e; NSData *data = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request returningResponse:nil error:&e]; But it's not sending data to my server. The urlString is correct, because if I enter the link produced by my app in my browser the score is added. How can i solve this problem, Thanks in advance

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• C++: Where can I define the body for a private function?

  - by Martijn Courteaux

  Hi, I have a header like this (header guards not shown): class GameSystem { public: GameSystem(Game *pcGame); virtual ~GameSystem(); void Setup(); private: void InitGame(); void RunGame(); void ExitGame(); Game *m_pcGame; /* Properties */ int m_nWidth; int m_nHeight; int m_nFps; bool m_bFullscreen; }; Where can I define the body for InitGame(), RunGame() and ExitGame()? Can I define it in my .cpp file? If so, how? Or am I obliged to make their body in my .h file? I'm using Eclipse and I began typing: void GameSystem:: and then he doesn't suggest the private functions.

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• MySQL Full-text Search Workaround for innoDB tables

  - by Rob

  I'm designing an internal web application that uses MySQL as its backend database. The integrity of the data is crucial, so I am using the innoDB engine for its foreign key constraint features. I want to do a full-text search of one type of records, and that is not supported natively with innoDB tables. I'm not willing to move to MyISAM tables due to their lack of foreign key support and due to the fact that their locking is per table, not per row. Would it be bad practice to create a mirrored table of the records I need to search using the MyISAM engine and use that for the full-text search? This way I'm just searching a copy of the data and if anything happens to that data it's not as big of a deal because it can always be re-created. Or is this an awkward way of doing this that should be avoided? Thanks.

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• Java ServerSocketChannel SocketChannel (Callback)

  - by ikurtz

  I am trying to learn Java. I would like to implement a simple networked connect 4 game as well as a chat feature. I want my network logic to be non blocking so after much study I found that SocketChannel is what I am after regrading my needs. What has not made sense still is the lack of CallBack functions in SocketChannels.. Like one finds in C#. My query for this time is: How do I deliver the data received to the Chat or Game form (JFrame)? Some guidance is most welcome.

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• [XNA] Forming bounding box only around visible sprites

  - by nadalian

  Hi, this site has been really amazing for helping me with game development however I'm unable to find an answer for the following question (nor am I able to solve it on my own). I am trying to do rectangle collision in my game. My idea is to 1) get the original collision bounding rectangle 2) Transform the texture (pos/rot/scale) 3) Factor changes of item into a matrix and then use this matrix to change the original collision bounds of the item. However, my textures contain a lot of transparency, transparency that affect the overall height/width of the texture (I do this to maintain power of two dimensions). My problem: How to create a rectangle that forms dimensions which ignore transparency around the object. A picture is provided below: http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/4772/boundingbox.png

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• How to structure a bigger/complicated project?

  - by Per

  Hello, I'm creating this (big?) project in high school where I'm programming the game Shithead (card game) (so that two people can play against eachother). I'll use mostly PHP, MySQL, JavaScript and Ajax. But I have never made a project like this before. I have only made like CMS-systems and so on. Do you guys have any tips on how I should structure this project? I'm also not so used to Object-oriented programming, but I guess I should consider this. Should I, for example, make a class for the cards? I'm very thankful for any tips or good links!

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• Select rows where column LIKE dictionary word

  - by Gerve

  I have 2 tables: Dictionary - Contains roughly 36,000 words CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `dictionary` ( `word` varchar(255) NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`word`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1; Datas - Contains roughly 100,000 rows CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `datas` ( `ID` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `hash` varchar(32) NOT NULL, `data` varchar(255) NOT NULL, `length` int(11) NOT NULL, `time` int(11) NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`ID`), UNIQUE KEY `hash` (`hash`), KEY `data` (`data`), KEY `length` (`length`), KEY `time` (`time`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=105316 ; I would like to somehow select all the rows from datas where the column data contains 1 or more words. I understand this is a big ask, it would need to match all of these rows together in every combination possible, so it needs the best optimization. I have tried the below query, but it just hangs for ages: SELECT `datas`.*, `dictionary`.`word` FROM `datas`, `dictionary` WHERE `datas`.`data` LIKE CONCAT('%', `dictionary`.`word`, '%') AND LENGTH(`dictionary`.`word`) > 3 ORDER BY `length` ASC LIMIT 15 I have also tried something similar to the above with a left join, and on clause that specified the like statement.

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