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Hello Everybody!
I am trying to decide upon the best method for storing a bunch of documents from floppies to an Oracle XE APEX database and I need advice on how to best approach this task. I can see storing these documents as a clob or blob field, but I would like to be able to search the documents. Should I store the actual word version of each document as a blob field and a text only version of the same document as a clob? Any other suggestions on how to best handle this?
I thank you in advance for your advise and assistance on this issue!
Charles

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The index for Oracle text includes all of the words in the text with the exception of a standard list,i.e. articles, etc..
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