+2  A: 

You do it in the same way as you would for any other column type:

CREATE INDEX IX_tblname_columnname
ON tbl_name (columnname)

See the documentation for more information and other options.

Mark Byers
If I create this index on my master, will it get replicated over to my slave?
TIMEX
@alex: I have no idea, but you can check by running `SHOW CREATE TABLE tblname` on your slave and see if the index is present or not.
Mark Byers