Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 20:26:04 -0800 (PST) From: Tom <tom@sdf.com> To: jonathan michaels <jon@caamora.com.au> Cc: freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: conversion from asksam Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812172023540.20307-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <19981218152005.A411@caamora.com.au>
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On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, jonathan michaels wrote: > i have recently, taken over a task that involves maintaining an asksam (for > dos) database. i was thinking that it would be much easier to have an office > i realise that schemas are going to have to be built and teh asksam database > exported .. this isn't a problem or an issue. what i need to know is wether or > not thier is a sql (assuming sql is up to the task) based methodology to > handle purely text based information and or wether or not it is possible to > get text information fields to be searcable ? What kind of database is asksam? It is flat file database? You seem to imply that it is some kind of free-form text database. A SQL RDMS might be poorly suited to a free-form test system. Oracle has a cool ConText package that provides nice free-form text indexing and searching, but it is very costly and kinda of useless if you aren't going to be using the rest of Oracle too. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message
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