RE: Intermedia question

Thanks Maria and Martin for your answers. I prefer the Intermeida option than the IFS option since IFS requires a big server to run and relatively new, where Intermedia (formerly Context) has been there for a number of years. I would need to do some reading re. Intermedia and BFILE.

Thanks
Long

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Hi Maria,

IFS would involve scanning the whole document whereas Intermedia allows for indexing the documents.

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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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