Full-text search is performed with the MATCH function.

Full-text search is performed with the MATCH function. 

mysql> CREATE TABLE articles (
-> id INT UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
-> title VARCHAR(200),
-> body TEXT,
-> FULLTEXT (title,body)
-> );
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
mysql> INSERT INTO articles VALUES
-> (0,'MySQL Tutorial', 'DBMS stands for DataBase Management ...'),
-> (0,'How To Use MySQL Efficiently', 'After you went through a ...'),
-> (0,'Optimising MySQL','In this tutorial we will show how to ...'),
-> (0,'1001 MySQL Trick','1. Never run mysqld as root. 2. Normalise ...'),
-> (0,'MySQL vs. YourSQL', 'In the following database comparison we ...'),
-> (0,'MySQL Security', 'When configured properly, MySQL could be ...');
Query OK, 5 rows affected (0.00 sec)
Records: 5 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0

mysql> SELECT * FROM articles WHERE MATCH (title,body) AGAINST ('database');
+----+-------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| id | title | body |
+----+-------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| 5 | MySQL vs. YourSQL | In the following database comparison we ... |
| 1 | MySQL Tutorial | DBMS stands for DataBase Management ... |
+----+-------------------+---------------------------------------------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Full-text index는 against로 확인할 수 있다.