I'd like some suggestions on how to best handle this. I've got a table with about 2500 records (not many I know and only growing at about 500 per year). It has 3 text fields I currently use fulltext search on. The minimum character limit is causing problems though.
Would yall suggest just reducing the minimum character limit to accept 3 character words (which is most of the problem) and continue using fulltext searching or should I look into other options like Sphinx or Lucene? Basically I'm unfamiliar with sphinx/lucene/etc and don't know if they would offer me any big advantages on searching with the type and amount of data I'm searching through.
Thanks