Re: Intermedia question

yes, its possible.
although, from my experience indexing a bfile takes a lot longer than indexing a blob...
and why not try using IFS for this?

Long.Nguyen_at_its.csiro.au wrote:

> Good day,
>
> I have an application that has many documents (Word, Excel, pdf, email etc) stored
>on a Solaris file system. I want to be able to search the contents of those document.
>Is it possible to create some tables in the database that has BFILE
> columns that reference those documents outside the database and use InterMedia to do
>searching?
>
> I am not familiar with LOBs and Intermedia, that's why I ask this basic question.
>
> Thanks
> Long
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