Re: Work Around For Simple Oracle interMedia?

I'll be the first to say I'm not a text/search expert, but in src/contrib
there's the following:

fulltextindex - Full text indexing using triggers

and there's this: http://openfts.sourceforge.net/

I haven't used either so can't comment at all...  there's also htdig and
mngosearch (external apps).

-philip

On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, David Griffiths wrote:

> One of our two databases uses context indexes on a column.
>
> If your not familiar, this is part of the Oracle interMedia option. The idea
> here is to be able to search for words within a text block. The text block
> is in a row, in one of the columns. It can also be HTML, a Word document,
> etc. When you index the column, it speeds up finding matching words.
>
> Once that's done, you can search like this:
>
> SELECT SCORE(1) title FROM news_items
>            WHERE CONTAINS(text, 'Bolivia', 1) > 0;
>
> This would find all rows in the table "news_item" that has the text
> "Bolivia" in the "title" column.
>
> SELECT SCORE(1) title FROM news_items
>            WHERE CONTAINS(text, 'Bolivia OR Peru', 1) > 0;
>
> This would find all rows in the table "news_item" that has the text
> "Bolivia" or "Peru" in the "title" column in any order.
>
> This is the most basic usage of the interMedia (you can get it to do a
> soundex to match a sound, or get a "near" match or fuzzy match rather than
> an exact match, etc.)
>
> But I'm looking for the basic "return all rows where the text in this column
> returns this word or these words".
>
> My two thoughts are, write my own function in PERL, or store the text in a
> file outside the database and use some OS-features to do the search
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> David
>
>
>
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