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Full text search involves searching documents, usually involving unstructured text, as opposed to searching text fields in a structured database.

Full text search involves searching documents, usually involving unstructured text, as opposed to searching text fields in a structured database.

Full text search capabilities often include ranking of results by relevance, similarity matching, boolean queries, text clustering, and more.

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Vim clear last search highlighting

After doing a search in Vim, I get all the occurrences highlighted. How can I disable that? I now do another search for something gibberish that can't be found. Is there a way to just temporarily disable the highlight and then re-enable it when…
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Shards and replicas in Elasticsearch

I am trying to understand what shard and replica is in Elasticsearch, but I didn't manage to understand it. If I download Elasticsearch and run the script, then from what I know I have started a cluster with a single node. Now this node (my PC) have…
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Comparison of full text search engine - Lucene, Sphinx, Postgresql, MySQL?

I'm building a Django site and I am looking for a search engine. A few candidates: Lucene/Lucene with Compass/Solr Sphinx Postgresql built-in full text search MySQl built-in full text search Selection criteria: result relevance and…
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How to search contents of multiple pdf files?

How could I search the contents of PDF files in a directory/subdirectory? I am looking for some command line tools. It seems that grep can't search PDF files.
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Beginner's guide to ElasticSearch

There hasn't been any books about ElasticSearch (that I know of), and http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/ seems to contain only references. Any good beginner's guide or tutorials, perhaps by examples, to recommend, especially in terms of the…
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Choosing a stand-alone full-text search server: Sphinx or SOLR?

I'm looking for a stand-alone full-text search server with the following properties: Must operate as a stand-alone server that can serve search requests from multiple clients Must be able to do "bulk indexing" by indexing the result of an SQL…
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Tools to search for strings inside files without indexing

I have to change some connection strings in an incredibly old legacy application, and the programmers who made it thought it would be a great idea to plaster the entire app with connection strings all over the place. Visual Studio's "current…
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What is Full Text Search vs LIKE

I just read a post mentioning "full text search" in SQL. I was just wondering what the difference between FTS and LIKE are. I did read a couple of articles but couldn't find anything that explained it well.
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Searching subversion history (full text)

Is there a way to perform a full text search of a subversion repository, including all the history? For example, I've written a feature that I used somewhere, but then it wasn't needed, so I svn rm'd the files, but now I need to find it again to use…
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Cannot use a CONTAINS or FREETEXT predicate on table or indexed view because it is not full-text indexed

I am getting following error in my SQL server 2008 R2 database: Cannot use a CONTAINS or FREETEXT predicate on table or indexed view 'tblArmy' because it is not full-text indexed.
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How to actually search all files in Visual Studio

I am using Visual Studio. Say for instance I have a static public method named FooBar() in class Utils. Let's also say that I use this method in a lot of .aspx files. Let's say I change the method signature of FooBar() to FooBar(string), and…
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What is faceted search?

What exactly is faceted search in the context of full-text search? I even read about it from Wikipedia, but I couldn't completely understand the use/benefit of it. Hope the community can answer/expand and explain with some good examples. NOTE:…
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Fulltext Search with InnoDB

I'm developing a high-volume web application, where part of it is a MySQL database of discussion posts that will need to grow to 20M+ rows, smoothly. I was originally planning on using MyISAM for the tables (for the built-in fulltext search…
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Full text search example in Android

I'm having a hard time understanding how to use full text search (FTS) with Android. I've read the SQLite documentation on the FTS3 and FTS4 extensions. And I know it's possible to do on Android. However, I'm having a hard time finding any examples…
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MySQL match() against() - order by relevance and column?

Okay, so I'm trying to make a full text search in multiple columns, something simple like this: SELECT * FROM pages WHERE MATCH(head, body) AGAINST('some words' IN BOOLEAN MODE) Now i want to order by relevance, (how many of the words are found?)…
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