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SQL-Newbie
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Posted - 2005-09-06 : 21:22:39
Hi All,
I am pretty new to SQL and would like a bit of friendly help, please. Am trying to set up a .Net web site that will have dynamic content supplied by a true SQL server (am using MSDE to build this first).

My issue is in building a search engine on my web site that will return hits from the content of the pages which are loaded in MSDE.

Is there a third party or open source search engine available?

Any clues for how to build (or beg, borrow or steal) a workable search engine to do this?

Many thanks,
Newbie

Kristen
Test

22859 Posts

Posted - 2005-09-07 : 02:38:01
Hi SQL-Newbie, Welcome to SQL Team!

Are you wanting a "Full Text" search across the content of records you will store in a table in your database?

If so this is built in to SQL Server - have a look in Books Online under "full-text catalogs, overview"

Kristen
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HCLollo
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49 Posts

Posted - 2005-09-07 : 03:44:58
Hi SQL-Newbie!

Well, it mostly depends on the kind of research you need to
do on your pages: based on the text in the pages themselves
or on the data the pages are going to display?

HCL


"If it works fine, then it doesn't have enough features"
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SQL-Newbie
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Posted - 2005-09-11 : 22:34:48
Hi Guys, thanks for the pointers. We are trying to search not just the text in tables, this may be the content of stored objects in different formats, PDF, DOC, PPT etc
That's why the problem, I kn ow e can search the database itself, just not sure how to do the binary stored objects
Many thanks, SQL-Newbie
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Kristen
Test

22859 Posts

Posted - 2005-09-12 : 01:19:47
I'm pretty sure that Full Text Search can search, say, a descriptive column in the database and the contents of an external file (i.e. where the path/filename can be deduced from data stored in the database)

Kristen
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