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  3. March 2010

RE: Full-text searching

Pete,

Concatenate the columns for the like?

Select * from table
where field1 || field2 || field3 || field 4 like '%smith%'

Haven't tried it, but seems like it would work, as it would search all the columns that you cat together. Of course, it won't tell you *which* column it was in...but it will give you the whole record.

Just a thought!
message: 7
date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 19:28:46 -0500
from: Pete Wood<acedanger49@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: RE: Full-text searching

I'm trying to basically do a wildcard search over several fields in a
database table. For example, if a user types in "Smith", I would run a query
over every text field in the table for the word(s) like "smith" and show the
most relevant at the top of the result set followed by the least relevant at
the bottom.

I'd rather not use "select * from table where txtFld1 like '%smith%' or
txtFld2 like '%smith%' ..." since that would be very slow for a large table.



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