Waliaula Makokha
Waliaula Makokha

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Oracle Full Text Search

Which data type in Oracle 10 and 11g is best suited for full text search to be conducted on. I am thinking BLOB?

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bpgergo
bpgergo

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It could be varchar2, clob, or blob. It depends on the size of a chunk of text that will be in a record. docs: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/text.111/b28303/ind.htm

EDIT here's a basic introduction http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/9i/FullTextIndexingUsingOracleText9i.php

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