full-text-search

SQL Server 2005 Full text search - Valid Thesaurus characters

FORMSOF THESAURUS throws errors for specific character. E.g. FORMSOF (THESAURUS, hel!lo) throws an error whereas FORMSOF (THESAURUS, hel?lo) works. However, I did not find any documentation about which characters are allowed. Can you help me out? ...

What are some free or inexpensive tools out there to search/index file systems (using .Net)?

I'm looking for a way to search a file system that contains approximately 1TB of documents in either Office or PDF format. Is Lucene.Net pretty much the best way to accomplish this? I've also heard of dtSearch, and was wondering if anyone had used that tool with any success? Are there any other tools out there that would do the job? ...

Problems when going from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008

Hi! I did go over from SQL server 2005 to 2008. Doing that gave me some problems with the fulltext search. This site is based on Fulltext search. It occurs more deadlocks, the search is slower and sometimes it return empty lists, don't know why. A lot of people has been writning about they having this problem with 2008. But I haven'...

SQL Server full text search catalog not full updated

It seems that my Sql Server Full text catalog is not always up to date. I regularly run the script: EXEC sp_fulltext_catalog 'HtmlSearch', 'start_full' After that my catalog is up to date and my search results are fine. Is there somewhere an option that I have to set? And when does the full text update itself? ...

SQL Server 2005 Full text search - Searching for numbers

Hi all, I using the SQL Server 2008 FTS feature in a project. When searching for a phone number like CONTAINSTABLE(table, *, '"017394708699"'), this query also returns records containing the number '017394689966', which is similar. Does anyone know how I can get an exact match from a number? ...

Tokenizer for full-text

This should be an ideal case of not re-inventing the wheel, but so far my search has been in vain. Instead of writing one myself, I would like to use an existing C++ tokenizer. The tokens are to be used in an index for full text searching. Performance is very important, I will parse many gigabytes of text. Edit: Please note that the ...

snippet generation in php

Hi, I have a long chunk of text that came back from a search query. I'd like to display a snippet of the text, not the entire thing, and highlight the search query within the snippet. I realize that decided what part of the text to slice can be complicated, and I was hoping for any ideas on how do to this? Thanks! ...

how to create a pure browser/javascript search engine for a bunch of static files ?

Hello, I was wondering if there exists some kind of indexer (in python language for exemple) that would take a bunch of html files and create an index in javascript. In the solution, these javascript files would then be used to create a pure browser search engine. Jerome ...

SQL Full-Text Indexing Issue

UPDATE: I have figured out a way using a form of dynamic sql to fix this problem, thanks anyway for any help. Hi, there is something that I need to accomplish with the use of Full-Text Indexing. This is it: The fact of the matter is when I run a query (with a stored procedure) that looks like (with a parameter (@name) that was obvious...

Remove undesired indexed keywords from Sql Server FTS Index

Could anyone tell me if SQL Server 2008 has a way to prevent keywords from being indexed that aren't really relevant to the types of searches that will be performed? For example, we have the IFilters for PDF and Word hooked in and our documents are being indexed properly as far as I can tell. These documents, however, have lots of nume...

Sunspot / Solr full text search - how to index Rails associations

Is it possible to index through an association with Sunspot? For example, if a Customer has_many Contacts, I want a 'searchable' block on my Customer model that indexes the Contact#first_name and Contact#last_name columns for use in searches on Customer. acts_as_solr has an :include option for this. I've simply been combining the asso...

ruby on rails - ultrasphinx

Ruby on Rails - UltraSphinx Hi guys, I'm using Ultrasphinx for the search thing. My question is : I have the "rake ultrasphinx:daemon:start" running in the background. Now, should I have a cron job that does "rake ultrasphinx:index" regularly or will the daemon take care of indexing whenever a new object is created. Please, let me kno...

Strange problem with MySQL full text query

This probably has something to do with my understanding of full text search or perhaps a known issue. My Java code creates search term for full text search on MySQL like this - +word* This works fine if the value in the DB column contains more text than the word itself. However, if the value is exact - no result are returned. I expec...

SQL Server 2005 Full-Text Search - can I search for forward-slash characters?

I'm trying to use SQL Server 2005's Full-Text Search to find single forward-slash characters within my indexed column, without success. Can anyone tell me if this is possible at all? Example: In my CentralSearchCache table, the SearchData column contains a row with the text "This/string/contains/forward/slashes". This query: SELECT ...

Poor execution plans when using a filter and CONTAINSTABLE in a query

We have an interesting problem that I was hoping someone could help to shed some light on. At a high level the problem is as below: The following query executes quickly (1 second): SELECT SA.* FROM cg.SEARCHSERVER_ACTYS AS SA JOIN CONTAINSTABLE(CG.SEARCHSERVER_ACTYS, NOTE, 'reports') AS T1 ON T1.[Key]=SA.UNIQUE_ID but if we add a fil...

sharepoint full text query with attributes missing isn't returning the results I expected

If I am doing a search in sharepoint, some of the results I'm expecting are not being returned. I believe its because in active directory these entries may not have all the fields. So a name that doesn't have the givenName attribute set in active directory is not being returned from this query. Is there a way I can get this to work li...

SQL Server Full Text Search Leading Wildcard

After taking a look at this SO question and doing my own research, it appears that you cannot have a leading wildcard while using full text search. So in the most simple example, if I have a Table with 1 column like below: TABLE1 coin coinage undercoin select COLUMN1 from TABLE1 where COLUMN1 LIKE '%coin%' Would get me the results I ...

SQL Server 2008 Full Text Rebuild - Large Memory Usage Issue

Each time I perform a SQL Server 2008 FTS Catalog Rebuild, my server is left in a state where the SQL Server process is at 2.8+ GB of memory and is causing performance degradation of the machine. When recycling the SQL Server service, its goes back down to around 350 MB and performance is back to normal. Is it normal to have to restart...

Will MySQL full-text-search return the results I need?

I have a keyword field with a list of 5 keywords for each item. example below: 2008, Honda, Accord, Used, Car Will MySQL full text return the item above for the following search requests? 2008 Honda Accord Honda Accord Used Car If so, how well will this hold up when searching through fifty thousand plus records? ...

Delphi Search Edit Component

Hi, I need a delphi component for Delphi 2007 win32 that have features like Google search text box. ** While User writing search key it should fill/refresh the list with values, and user can select one of them. **User can go up and down list and can select one of them. **List should contain codes and text pair, so user can select t...