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- From: lamaster@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Hugh LaMaster)
- Subject: Re: BLOBS (was: 500'000 records)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.014213.27040@news.arc.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
- References: <19085@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 01:42:13 GMT
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- In article <19085@mindlink.bc.ca>, Mischa_Sandberg@mindlink.bc.ca (Mischa Sandberg) writes:
- |> > Hugh LaMaster writes:
- |> > With 30K records, you are dealing
- |> > |> with blobs outside the normal record structure; you can run greater
- |> > |> risks.
- |> >
- |> > Is there a "correct" way to deal with this problem yet? It can show
- |> > up in surprisingly simple DBMS applications, such as where you want to
- |> > search through a bunch of trouble calls for matches to a particular
- |> > problem. 1-2 years ago, when I inquired to this newsgroup, there was
- |> > no RDBMS that could handle text searches efficiently. (Efficiently,
- |> > that is, compared to a text processing/retrieval system.) Is this still
- |> > the case?
- |>
- |> Seems to be still the case, among the mainstream database products.
- |> You might have some luck with middle-users (as opposed to end-users)
- |> such as those providing db's for, say, the publishing industry ---
- |> a wonderful source of solutions to problems that I, thank goodness,
- |> seldom see
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- Who are the vendors of this "middle-user" software?
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- What RDBMS's do they use as the database part (or, do they do their own?)?
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- What are the capabilities on the text side?
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- Is there a newsgroup on this, or a place where technical people and users
- of such products post?
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