Insert MyISAM key into a INNODB table

Question

I\'m using this table structure for a \'toxi\' like TAGs system

table TAGS

+--------+-------------------+
| alias  | isactive          |  varchar(55), tinyi         


        

Answer 1

You cannot create foreign keys in InnoDB tables referencing MyISAM tables.

Foreign keys definitions are subject to the following conditions:

Both tables must be InnoDB tables and they must not be TEMPORARY tables.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/innodb-foreign-key-constraints.html

So yes, you will have to manually enforce the constraints from your application code if you do not change the storage engine.

LIKE '%XXX%' searches are not fulltext; unless you actually specified a fulltext index and are using fulltext matching functions, you do not need to use the MyISAM engine.