Books on oracle text

any good books on oracle text.
please point out

See also:
Oracle® Text Application Developer's Guide: http://download-uk.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/text.102/b14217/toc.htm
and
Oracle® Text Reference
http://download-uk.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/text.102/b14218/toc.htm
There is also a chapter in the Expert One on One book for Oracle 7 and Oracle 8
http://www.amazon.com/Signature-Programming-Techniques-Solutions-through/dp/1590595254/sr=8-4/qid=1160594804/ref=pd_bbs_4/002-5267118-4661638?ie=UTF8
(but not in Expert Oracle Database Architecture: 9i and 10g Programming Techniques and Solutions)

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Pre-loading Oracle text in memory with Oracle 12c

There is a white paper from Roger Ford that explains how to load the Oracle index in memory : http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/enterprise-edition/mem-load-082296.html
In our application, Oracle 12c, we are indexing a big XML field (which is stored as XMLType with storage secure file) with the PATH_SECTION_GROUP. If I don't load the I table (DR$..$I) into memory using the technique explained in the white paper then I cannot have decent performance (and especially not predictable performance, it looks like if the blocks from the TOKEN_INFO columns are not memory then performance can fall sharply)
But after migrating to oracle 12c, I got a different problem, which I can reproduce: when I create the index it is relatively small (as seen with ctx_report.index_size) and by applying the technique from the whitepaper, I can pin the DR$ I table into memory. But as soon as I do a ctx_ddl.optimize_index('Index','REBUILD') the size becomes much bigger and I can't pin the index in memory. Not sure if it is bug or not.
What I found as work-around is to build the index with the following storage options:
ctx_ddl.create_preference('TEST_STO','BASIC_STORAGE');
ctx_ddl.set_attribute ('TEST_STO', 'BIG_IO', 'YES' );
ctx_ddl.set_attribute ('TEST_STO', 'SEPARATE_OFFSETS', 'NO' );
so that the token_info column will be stored in a secure file. Then I can change the storage of that column to put it in the keep buffer cache, and write a procedure to read the LOB so that it will be loaded in the keep cache. The size of the LOB column is more or less the same as when creating the index without the BIG_IO option but it remains constant even after a ctx_dll.optimize_index. The procedure to read the LOB and to load it into the cache is very similar to the loaddollarR procedure from the white paper.
Because of the SDATA section, there is a new DR table (S table) and an IOT on top of it. This is not documented in the white paper (the white paper was written for Oracle 10g). In my case this DR$ S table is much used, and the IOT also, but putting it in the keep cache is not as important as the token_info column of the DR I table. A final note: doing SEPARATE_OFFSETS = 'YES' was very bad in my case, the combined size of the two columns is much bigger than having only the TOKEN_INFO column and both columns are read.
Here is an example on how to reproduce the problem with the size increasing when doing ctx_optimize
1. create the table
drop table test;
CREATE TABLE test
(ID NUMBER(9,0) NOT NULL ENABLE,
XML_DATA XMLTYPE
XMLTYPE COLUMN XML_DATA STORE AS SECUREFILE BINARY XML (tablespace users disable storage in row);
2. insert a few records
insert into test values(1,'<Book><TITLE>Tale of Two Cities</TITLE>It was the best of times.<Author NAME="Charles Dickens"> Born in England in the town, Stratford_Upon_Avon </Author></Book>');
insert into test values(2,'<BOOK><TITLE>The House of Mirth</TITLE>Written in 1905<Author NAME="Edith Wharton"> Wharton was born to George Frederic Jones and Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander in New York City.</Author></BOOK>');
insert into test values(3,'<BOOK><TITLE>Age of innocence</TITLE>She got a prize for it.<Author NAME="Edith Wharton"> Wharton was born to George Frederic Jones and Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander in New York City.</Author></BOOK>');
3. create the text index
drop index i_test;
exec ctx_ddl.create_section_group('TEST_SGP','PATH_SECTION_GROUP');
begin
CTX_DDL.ADD_SDATA_SECTION(group_name => 'TEST_SGP',
                            section_name => 'SData_02',
                            tag => 'SData_02',
                            datatype => 'varchar2');
end;
exec ctx_ddl.create_preference('TEST_STO','BASIC_STORAGE');
exec ctx_ddl.set_attribute('TEST_STO','I_TABLE_CLAUSE','tablespace USERS storage (initial 64K)');
exec ctx_ddl.set_attribute('TEST_STO','I_INDEX_CLAUSE','tablespace USERS storage (initial 64K) compress 2');
exec ctx_ddl.set_attribute ('TEST_STO', 'BIG_IO', 'NO' );
exec ctx_ddl.set_attribute ('TEST_STO', 'SEPARATE_OFFSETS', 'NO' );
create index I_TEST
on TEST (XML_DATA)
indextype is ctxsys.context
parameters('
    section group   "TEST_SGP"
    storage         "TEST_STO"
') parallel 2;
4. check the index size
select ctx_report.index_size('I_TEST') from dual;
it says :
TOTALS FOR INDEX TEST.I_TEST
TOTAL BLOCKS ALLOCATED:                                                104
TOTAL BLOCKS USED:                                                      72
TOTAL BYTES ALLOCATED:                                 851,968 (832.00 KB)
TOTAL BYTES USED:                                      589,824 (576.00 KB)
4. optimize the index
exec ctx_ddl.optimize_index('I_TEST','REBUILD');
and now recompute the size, it says
TOTALS FOR INDEX TEST.I_TEST
TOTAL BLOCKS ALLOCATED:                                               1112
TOTAL BLOCKS USED:                                                    1080
TOTAL BYTES ALLOCATED:                                 9,109,504 (8.69 MB)
TOTAL BYTES USED:                                      8,847,360 (8.44 MB)
which shows that it went from 576KB to 8.44MB. With a big index the difference is not so big, but still from 14G to 19G.
5. Workaround: use the BIG_IO option, so that the token_info column of the DR$ I table will be stored in a secure file and the size will stay relatively small. Then you can load this column in the cache using a procedure similar to
alter table DR$I_TEST$I storage (buffer_pool keep);
alter table dr$i_test$i modify lob(token_info) (cache storage (buffer_pool keep));
rem: now we must read the lob so that it will be loaded in the keep buffer pool, use the prccedure below
create or replace procedure loadTokenInfo is
type c_type is ref cursor;
c2 c_type;
s varchar2(2000);
b blob;
buff varchar2(100);
siz number;
off number;
cntr number;
begin
    s := 'select token_info from DR$i_test$I';
    open c2 for s;
    loop
       fetch c2 into b;
       exit when c2%notfound;
       siz := 10;
       off := 1;
       cntr := 0;
       if dbms_lob.getlength(b) > 0 then
         begin
           loop
             dbms_lob.read(b, siz, off, buff);
             cntr := cntr + 1;
             off := off + 4096;
           end loop;
         exception when no_data_found then
           if cntr > 0 then
             dbms_output.put_line('4K chunks fetched: '||cntr);
           end if;
         end;
       end if;
    end loop;
end;
Rgds, Pierre

I have been working a lot on that issue recently, I can give some more info.
First I totally agree with you, I don't like to use the keep_pool and I would love to avoid it. On the other hand, we have a specific use case : 90% of the activity in the DB is done by queuing and dbms_scheduler jobs where response time does not matter. All those processes are probably filling the buffer cache. We have a customer facing application that uses the text index to search the database : performance is critical for them.
What kind of performance do you have with your application ?
In my case, I have learned the hard way that having the index in memory (the DR$I table in fact) is the key : if it is not, then performance is poor. I find it reasonable to pin the DR$I table in memory and if you look at competitors this is what they do. With MongoDB they explicitly says that the index must be in memory. With elasticsearch, they use JVM's that are also in memory. And effectively, if you look at the awr report, you will see that Oracle is continuously accessing the DR$I table, there is a SQL similar to
SELECT /*+ DYNAMIC_SAMPLING(0) INDEX(i) */
TOKEN_FIRST, TOKEN_LAST, TOKEN_COUNT, ROWID
FROM DR$idxname$I
WHERE TOKEN_TEXT = :word AND TOKEN_TYPE = :wtype
ORDER BY TOKEN_TEXT, TOKEN_TYPE, TOKEN_FIRST
which is continuously done.
I think that the algorithm used by Oracle to keep blocks in cache is too complex. A just realized that in 12.1.0.2 (was released last week) there is finally a "killer" functionality, the in-memory parameters, with which you can pin tables or columns in memory with compression, etc. this looks ideal for the text index, I hope that R. Ford will finally update his white paper :-)
But my other problem was that the optimize_index in REBUILD mode caused the DR$I table to double in size : it seems crazy that this was closed as not a bug but it was and I can't do anything about it. It is a bug in my opinion, because the create index command and "alter index rebuild" command both result in a much smaller index, so why would the guys that developped the optimize function (is it another team, using another algorithm ?) make the index two times bigger ?
And for that the track I have been following is to put the index in a 16K tablespace : in this case the space used by the index remains more or less flat (increases but much more reasonably). The difficulty here is to pin the index in memory because the trick of R. Ford was not working anymore.
What worked:
first set the keep_pool to zero and set the db_16k_cache_size to instead. Then change the storage preference to make sure that everything you want to cache (mostly the DR$I) table come in the tablespace with the non-standard block size of 16k.
Then comes the tricky part : the pre-loading of the data in the buffer cache. The problem is that with Oracle 12c, Oracle will use direct_path_read for FTS which basically means that it bypasses the cache and read directory from file to the PGA !!! There is an event to avoid that, I was lucky to find it on a blog (I can't remember which, sorry for the credit).
I ended-up doing that. the events to 10949 is to avoid the direct path reads issue.
alter session set events '10949 trace name context forever, level 1';
alter table DR#idxname0001$I cache;
alter table DR#idxname0002$I cache;
alter table DR#idxname0003$I cache;
SELECT /*+ FULL(ITAB) CACHE(ITAB) */ SUM(TOKEN_COUNT), SUM(LENGTH(TOKEN_INFO)) FROM DR#idxname0001$I;
SELECT /*+ FULL(ITAB) CACHE(ITAB) */ SUM(TOKEN_COUNT), SUM(LENGTH(TOKEN_INFO)) FROM DR#idxname0002$I;
SELECT /*+ FULL(ITAB) CACHE(ITAB) */ SUM(TOKEN_COUNT), SUM(LENGTH(TOKEN_INFO)) FROM DR#idxname0003$I;
SELECT /*+ INDEX(ITAB) CACHE(ITAB) */ SUM(LENGTH(TOKEN_TEXT)) FROM DR#idxname0001$I ITAB;
SELECT /*+ INDEX(ITAB) CACHE(ITAB) */ SUM(LENGTH(TOKEN_TEXT)) FROM DR#idxname0002$I ITAB;
SELECT /*+ INDEX(ITAB) CACHE(ITAB) */ SUM(LENGTH(TOKEN_TEXT)) FROM DR#idxname0003$I ITAB;
It worked. With a big relief I expected to take some time out, but there was a last surprise. The command
exec ctx_ddl.optimize_index(idx_name=>'idxname',part_name=>'partname',optlevel=>'REBUILD');
gqve the following
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-20000: Oracle Text error:
DRG-50857: oracle error in drftoptrebxch
ORA-14097: column type or size mismatch in ALTER TABLE EXCHANGE PARTITION
ORA-06512: at "CTXSYS.DRUE", line 160
ORA-06512: at "CTXSYS.CTX_DDL", line 1141
ORA-06512: at line 1
Which is very much exactly described in a metalink note 1645634.1 but in the case of a non-partitioned index. The work-around given seemed very logical but it did not work in the case of a partitioned index. After experimenting, I found out that the bug occurs when the partitioned index is created with dbms_pclxutil.build_part_index procedure (this enables enables intra-partition parallelism in the index creation process). This is a very annoying and stupid bug, maybe there is a work-around, but did not find it on metalink
Other points of attention with the text index creation (stuff that surprised me at first !) ;
- if you use the dbms_pclxutil package, then the ctx_output logging does not work, because the index is created immediately and then populated in the background via dbms_jobs.
- this in combination with the fact that if you are on a RAC, you won't see any activity on the box can be very frightening : this is because oracle can choose to start the workers on the other node.
I understand much better how the text indexing works, I think it is a great technology which can scale via partitioning. But like always the design of the application is crucial, most of our problems come from the fact that we did not choose the right sectioning (we choosed PATH_SECTION_GROUP while XML_SECTION_GROUP is so much better IMO). Maybe later I can convince the dev to change the sectionining, especially because SDATA and MDATA section are not supported with PATCH_SECTION_GROUP (although it seems to work, even though we had one occurence of a bad result linked to the existence of SDATA in the index definition). Also the whole problematic of mixed structured/unstructured searches is completly tackled if one use XML_SECTION_GROUP with MDATA/SDATA (but of course the app was written for Oracle 10...)
Regards, Pierre

Text mining using oracle text

i am about to embark on an ambitious project. i want to create a document server that can archive documents such as word, pdfs etc. i would also like to create a feature by which users can compare documents to find how similar they are. how do i go about building such an application. do i need to use data mining algorithms like neural network to compare documents. what mining algorithm should i use. or should i create indexes or something. what are the file types supported by oracle text.
please help me.
even if u don't have correct answers, please feel free to add your opinion.

Take a look at the following Oracle 10gR2 Documentation books (available on OTN):
- Oracle Data Mining Concepts: Chapter 6
- Oracle Data Mining Application Developer's Guide: Chapter 5 and 7
You may also take a look at the Oracle Text documentation:
- Oracle Text Application Developer's Guide: Chapter 6
Oracle Text uses Oracle Data Mining behind the scene for some of its capabilities (SVM and K-Means). They have different capabilities as explained in Chapter 6 of the Oracle Data Mining Concepts.
--Marcos

Oracle Text in installing Oracle 10g without licence!!

Hi. Everyone.
I've read some thread , but I am still confused about "oracle text".
Now, I am testing oracle10g database.
I downloaded 10g software from www.oracle.com, and installed it sucessfully
on windows xp.
When I was trying to import a dump file from oracle9i to
the unlicenced oracle10g database, I got the error , IMP-00017, which
is related to "Oracle Text".
I checked "dba_users" dictionary, but ctxsys user is locked and expired.
I read some thread on this site, and according to the advice, I tried to
enable oracle text, using "DBCA".
However, every database option on DBCA is disabled, I was not able to
check oracle text.
Lastly, how can I enable "Oracle Text" with unlicenced oracle 10g ?
Is this possible without licence?
I am very confused about this.
I am looking forward to hear your experience and advices.
Have a nice day.
Best Regards.
Ho.

Well, instead of being confused, you could go to http://www.oracle.com/pls/db102/portal.portal_db?selected=1 and look at
1) the licensing document, which would tell you whether you need a separate license, and
2) under the 'Books' tab, look at the Text Application Developer's Guide or the Text Reference manuals for details.
You could also look for the Oracle Text forum (from the http://forums.oracle.com page, under Database - More, or Text and ask the people who concentrate on that set of features.
In general, Oracle Text is a set of extensions, the definitions for which are stored under user ctxsys. You would use these extensions by creating your own objects that are based on the extensions.
For example, suppose your tables contain varchar2 columns. Create indexes that are based on ctxsys's 'context index type' and your application can then use the 'CONTAINS' keyword search capability (which is effectively a ctxsys-owned extension to the select)
However, you would never log on to ctxsys and do anythibng with that as you risk changing the template code that Oracle has supplied.
Message was edited by:
Hans Forbrich
PS: Yes, Oracle Text is included as part of the base database. Most of it is even included in the free Oracle XE database.

"Oracle text" performance Problem

Architecture for Performance on a web site Search!
I wanna use text service of ORACLE.But I am worried about the performance ....
How should I design the system if I want the best perfomance and scalability ?
1.Should I build a seperate coloumn in my every table and merge all the information into one coloumn and full text index that column.
2.Put a full text index in all column in the table and use OR clause and reverse rank it for AND clause,using CONTAINSTABLE function.
3.Make a different table and put ID,TYPE and _VALUE fields and search in that table with less coloumns.
4.Seperate the full text database and search in a seperate db so that I can scale better?
did anybody have a similiar problem ? Any books on full text search ?

The number of indexes is irrelevant as such. If you really need 100 tables and you really need full text search on all of them, you need 100 indexes. When you are inserting data in any given table, the fact that there are 99 other tables with 99 other Text indexes is irrelevant.
That being said, I would seriously question whether a data model that involves doing full-text searches on 100 separate tables was actually a proper data model. That strikes me as highly unlikely.
Justin

Oracle text for varchar2

Hi ...
can i use oracle Text for searching in varchar2 field ....
IF yes , plz give me the details ....
Thanks ....

SELECT OD OID, TAB Layer, COLUM Field, TEX Result,
score(22) Score FROM VIEW_MASTER
WHERE CONTAINS ( TEXT_VALUE, SEARCH_TERMS, 22 ) > 0
ORDER BY Score;
The search_terms are an inbound parameter. Not sure
what the 22 does, i think its just an alias name. I
don't know what the score coming back means.
Sometimes I get 16, sometimes 12, sometimes 7.
I could use some help on this myself.Yes, 22 is just an alias. You can use any number here since it is just a label which is used to correlate the CONTAINS function with its corresponding SCORE function.
The details of how the score is computed are available in the Oracle Text Reference book, Appendix "F The Oracle Text Scoring Algorithm".
Faisal

Beginning Oracle Text...

Could someone perhaps point to a good online source of basic information about how to USE oracle text in searches?
I'm specifically looking for information about how to do searches like {woman NOT man}, or whether "woman" will select "women" or whether "$woman" will select "man" and so on. What switches are there to control what is searched for? What booleans are allowed and how must they be presented, and so on.
I'm doing OK with the official oracle documentation, but something snappier and abstracted would be good to find!
Any good book recommendations would be appreciated, too. (Especially since doing a search at Amazon for "oracle text" brings up a lot of textbooks about Oracle, but not many obviously about the specific database feature!)
In the meantime, could someone answer a simple question I've not been able to find a simple answer to so far? Can Oracle text do 'NOT' searches? (As in 'man not boy')?

Most of what you are asking about is covered in the section of the Text Reference on Contains Query Operators:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/text.111/b28304/cqoper.htm#CCREF0300
Here are some examples regarding the specific questions you asked:
SCOTT@orcl_11g> CREATE TABLE test_tab (test_col VARCHAR2 (60))
2 /
Table created.
SCOTT@orcl_11g> INSERT ALL
2 INTO test_tab (test_col) VALUES ('woman')
3 INTO test_tab (test_col) VALUES ('man woman')
4 INTO test_tab (test_col) VALUES ('women')
5 INTO test_tab (test_col) VALUES ('men women')
6 INTO test_tab (test_col) VALUES ('man boy')
7 INTO test_tab (test_col) VALUES ('man')
8 SELECT * FROM DUAL
9 /
6 rows created.
SCOTT@orcl_11g> CREATE INDEX test_idx ON test_tab (test_col) INDEXTYPE IS CTXSYS.CONTEXT
2 /
Index created.
SCOTT@orcl_11g> SELECT * FROM test_tab WHERE CONTAINS (test_col, 'woman NOT man') > 0
2 /
TEST_COL
woman
SCOTT@orcl_11g> SELECT * FROM test_tab WHERE CONTAINS (test_col, 'woman') > 0
2 /
TEST_COL
woman
man woman
SCOTT@orcl_11g> SELECT * FROM test_tab WHERE CONTAINS (test_col, '$woman') > 0
2 /
TEST_COL
woman
man woman
women
men women
SCOTT@orcl_11g> SELECT * FROM test_tab WHERE CONTAINS (test_col, 'man NOT boy') > 0
2 /
TEST_COL
man woman
man
SCOTT@orcl_11g>

MultiLanguage support for Oracle Text

Hi,
We are providing multi language support in our application. So, we are using the NVarchar datatype. And we want to provide the search option for that text. So if i tried to create an index on that column it is giving the error and unable to create the index on that column. Same if tried to create an index on Char and Varchar datatypes it was successfully created the index on those columns and search is working fine.
But according to our requirements, we should provide the multi language support in our application.
Please suggest me how to create indexes on NVarchar datatype and providing the oracle text search features on that datatype.
Waiting for your favourble reply.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Anil.

No place in the standard docs very well. There was a note I found on it at one point, but I can't find the number at the moment. 10g new features for Text note has some info on it though. I'll look again tomorrow.
I did a lot of research on the world_lexer a few months back (wrote some info on IR & Oracle Text our newest Oracle Press book), and got some good info from the product team. One of the chapters covering Text will be made available for free and there is a diagram in there of how the world_lexer processes text. I'll post the link to the forum when it is available.
Since it doesn't require a language column, it attempts to auto-recognize the text...but not really the language. More like...the type of text it is. White-space delimited languages like English or Spanish are easy to break into tokens. Japanese & Korean are another story...no white-space delimiter. Arabic is yet another story. Those are essentially the buckets that text is thrown into for breaking into tokens when using the world_lexer.
So, where does German fall? It will be broken up similar to English. But what about the special features (like alternate spelling) that are available? Nope - sorry. It doesn't know German from French. With the multi_lexer you defined sub-lexers and told Text which records were German or French. This means that you can use more of the lang features with it. The world_lexer is much easier to implement and maintain, but it is a trade-off.
Hope that defines it a little better.

How do I get Oracle Text to index files on a file server?

I am new to Oracle (I'm a MS-SQL DBA looking for a Full-Text Search solution that is better than linking to a MS index server.)
So - Here's the objective:
I have Oracle Server(Express) installed on a Windows server.
I would like for Oracle to build a Full-Text Catalog of the files on a separate file server based on file paths in a table in the database.
(No desire to store terabytes of images and documents inside the database)
I can get Oracle text up and running, using the URL_Datastore:
CREATE TABLE files (id NUMBER PRIMARY KEY, issue_id NUMBER, path VARCHAR(255) UNIQUE, ot_format VARCHAR(6), ot_version VARCHAR(10));
The Compaq server is a remote windows server on my local workgroup, so the fully qualified path is just "compaq" and the URL is valid:
INSERT INTO files VALUES (9,9,'file://Compaq/FTQ/00000003.pdf',NULL,NULL);
INSERT INTO files VALUES (13,13,'file://Compaq/FTQ/01.txt',NULL,NULL);
CREATE INDEX file_index ON files(path) INDEXTYPE IS ctxsys.context
PARAMETERS ('datastore ctxsys.URL_DATASTORE format column ot_format');
but when I enter:
Select * from CTX_User_Index_errors, I see the following errors:
DRG-11609: URL store: unable to open local file specified by file://Compaq/FTQ/00000003.pdf
DRG-11609: URL store: unable to open local file specified by file://Compaq/FTQ/01.txt
Did I miss something?
Do I need to install anything on the file server?
I would like to convince my company that Oracle can be much quicker than Microsoft's Indexing Service because it can avoid joining two large result sets (one result set from Full_text (indexing service) and one for specific data contained in fields in the MS-SQL database.) Full Text Searches commonly take 40 - 60 seconds where there are 1.5 million multi-page PDF files for a particular set that I sample search on. Without this massive join, I believe I can get the search to run in under 10 seconds.

Thank you!
File_Datastore worked fine.
I was staying away from File_Datastore because the information I gathered from googling suggested that file_datastore would only work locally.
Now I just have to get Oracle to pull data out of tables in a MS-SQL database on the local network (don't have a clue yet), and then have it index compiled file paths.
Then MS-SQL can query Oracle with index and full-text criteria and Oracle can send back a result set
It may sound like a bad way of performing Full-Text Queries, but anything will be better than the way things are currently running. We are currently performing Full Text Searches on a table that is rebuilt nightly, so the table containing millions of file paths is not live..
It would be so much better if we just migrated to Oracle, but we currently do not have the resources.

Is there a listing or book of oracle error codes?

i am looking for a book of oracle error codes. Is there someplae where I can find them online or anywhere really.
thanks

See the following URL gives you a list of oracle messages and actions to be done
http://ora-doc.cict.fr:7777/server.815/a67785/toc.htm

Error while running the Oracle Text optimize index procedure (even as a dba user too)

Hi Experts,
I am on Oracle on 11.2.0.2 on Linux. I have implemented Oracle Text. My Oracle Text indexes are fragmented but I am getting an error while running the optimize_index error. Following is the error:
begin
ctx_ddl.optimize_index(idx_name=>'ACCESS_T1',optlevel=>'FULL');
end;
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-20000: Oracle Text error:
ORA-06512: at "CTXSYS.DRUE", line 160
ORA-06512: at "CTXSYS.CTX_DDL", line 941
ORA-06512: at line 1
Now I tried then to run this as DBA user too and it failed the same way!
begin
ctx_ddl.optimize_index(idx_name=>'BVSCH1.ACCESS_T1',optlevel=>'FULL');
end;
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-20000: Oracle Text error:
ORA-06512: at "CTXSYS.DRUE", line 160
ORA-06512: at "CTXSYS.CTX_DDL", line 941
ORA-06512: at line 1
Now CTXAPP role is granted to my schema and still I am getting this error. I will be thankful for the suggestions.
Also one other important observation: We have this issue ONLY in one database and in the other two databases, I don't see any problem at all.
I am unable to figure out what the issue is with this one database!
Thanks,
OrauserN

How about check the following?
Bug 10626728 - CTX_DDL.optimize_index "full" fails with an empty ORA-20000 since 11.2.0.2 upgrade (DOCID 10626728.8)

Getting error while importing schema with ORACLE TEXT

IMP-00003: ORACLE error 20000 encountered
ORA-20000: Oracle Text error:
DRG-52204: error while registering index
DRG-10507: duplicate index name: WORKORDER_Q, owner: SYS
ORA-06512: at "CTXSYS.DRUE", line 160
ORA-06512: at "CTXSYS.DRIIMP", line 115
ORA-06512: at line 2
IMP-00088: Problem importing metadata for index WORKORDER_Q. Index creation will be skipped
Database version - Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0 - 64bit Production
Os version - Linux nlxs1012.slb.atosorigin-asp.com 2.6.18-308.el5 #1 SMP Fri Jan 27 17:17:51 EST 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
We have take export of schema from production db now importing data to qa environment..
In import facing above error..

I am importing objects from P20_MAXIMO to Q25_MAXIMO to another database..
Below is import par file..
USERID='/ as sysdba'
FILE=exp_P20_MAXIMO_C2364781.dmp
LOG=imp_P20_MAXIMO__Q25_MAXIMO_C2364781_1.log
FROMUSER=P20_MAXIMO
TOUSER=Q25_MAXIMO
buffer=1000000
feedback=100000
Export parfile
userid='/ as sysdba'
owner=P20_MAXIMO
FILE=exp_P20_MAXIMO_C2364781.dmp
LOG=exp_P20_MAXIMO_C2364781.log
buffer=10000000
feedback=100000
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Suggestion: Oracle text CONTEXT index on one or more columns ?

Hi,
I'm implementing Oracle text using CONTEXT ..... and would like to ask you for performance suggestion ...
I have a table of Articles .... with columns .. TITLE, SUBTITLE , BODY ...
Now is it better from performance point of view to move all three columns into one dummy column ... with name like FULLTEXT ... and put index on this single column,
and then use CONTAINS(FULLTEXT,'...')>0
Or is it almost the same for oracle if i put indexes on all three columns and then call:
CONTAINS(TITLE,'...')>0 OR CONTAINS(SUBTITLE,'...')>0 OR CONTAINS(BODY,'...')>0
I actually don't care if the result is a match in TITLE OR SUBTITLE OR BODY ....
So if i move into some FULLTEXT column, then i have duplicate data in a article row ... but if i create indexes for each column, than oracle has 2x more to index,optimize and search ... am I wright ?
Table has 1.8mil records ...
Thank you.
Kris

mackrispi wrote:
Now is it better from performance point of view to move all three columns into one dummy column ... with name like FULLTEXT ... and put index on this single column,
and then use CONTAINS(FULLTEXT,'...')>0What version of Oracle are you on? If 11 then you could use a virtual column to do this, otherwise you'd have to write code to maintain the column which can get messy.
mackrispi wrote:
Or is it almost the same for oracle if i put indexes on all three columns and then call:
CONTAINS(TITLE,'...')>0 OR CONTAINS(SUBTITLE,'...')>0 OR CONTAINS(BODY,'...')>0Benchmark it and find out :)
Another option would be something like this.
http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:9455353124561
Were i you, i would try out those 3 approaches and see which meet your performance requirements and weigh that with the ease of implementation and administration.

ERROR at line 1: ORA-29855: error occurred in the execution of ODCIINDEXCREATE routine ORA-20000: Oracle Text error: DRG-10700: preference does not exist: global_lexer ORA-06512: at "CTXSYS.DRUE", line 160 ORA-06512: at "CTXSYS.TEXTINDEXMETHODS", line 366

database version 11.2.0.4
rac two node
CREATE INDEX MAXIMO.ACTCI_NDX3 ON MAXIMO.ACTCI
(DESCRIPTION)
INDEXTYPE IS CTXSYS.CONTEXT
PARAMETERS('lexer global_lexer language column LANGCODE')
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-29855: error occurred in the execution of ODCIINDEXCREATE routine
ORA-20000: Oracle Text error:
DRG-10700: preference does not exist: global_lexer
ORA-06512: at "CTXSYS.DRUE", line 160
ORA-06512: at "CTXSYS.TEXTINDEXMETHODS", line 366

Like the error message says, you don't have a global_lexer. So, you need to create a global_lexer and that lexer must have at least a default sub_lexer, then you can use that global_lexer in your index parameters. Please see the demonstration below, including reproduction of the error and solution.
SCOTT@orcl12c> -- reproduction of problem:
SCOTT@orcl12c> CREATE TABLE actci
2    (description VARCHAR2(60),
3      langcode     VARCHAR2(30))
4 /
Table created.
SCOTT@orcl12c> CREATE INDEX ACTCI_NDX3 ON ACTCI (DESCRIPTION)
2 INDEXTYPE IS CTXSYS.CONTEXT
3 PARAMETERS('lexer global_lexer language column LANGCODE')
4 /
CREATE INDEX ACTCI_NDX3 ON ACTCI (DESCRIPTION)
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-29855: error occurred in the execution of ODCIINDEXCREATE routine
ORA-20000: Oracle Text error:
DRG-10700: preference does not exist: global_lexer
ORA-06512: at "CTXSYS.DRUE", line 160
ORA-06512: at "CTXSYS.TEXTINDEXMETHODS", line 366
SCOTT@orcl12c> -- solution:
SCOTT@orcl12c> DROP INDEX actci_ndx3
2 /
Index dropped.
SCOTT@orcl12c> BEGIN
2    CTX_DDL.CREATE_PREFERENCE ('global_lexer', 'multi_lexer');
3    CTX_DDL.CREATE_PREFERENCE ('english_lexer', 'basic_lexer');
4    CTX_DDL.ADD_SUB_LEXER ('global_lexer', 'default', 'english_lexer');
5 END;
6 /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SCOTT@orcl12c> CREATE INDEX ACTCI_NDX3 ON ACTCI (DESCRIPTION)
2 INDEXTYPE IS CTXSYS.CONTEXT
3 PARAMETERS('lexer global_lexer language column LANGCODE')
4 /
Index created.

Upgrading Oracle Text - Post upgrade step 10.2 to 11.2

I already upgraded my 10.2.0.4 database to 11.2.0.1 and have to do post upgrade steps. In step 39 of Manual guideline (837570.1) is not clear for me. If some one can explain further would be appriciated. When i check my source ORACLE_HOME/ctx/admin/ctxf102.txt or ctxf102.sql
Step 39
Upgrading Oracle Text
Copy the following files from the previous Oracle home to the new Oracle home:
* Stemming user-dictionary files
* User-modified KOREAN_MORPH_LEXER dictionary files
* USER_FILTER executables
To obtain a list of the above files, use:
$ORACLE_HOME/ctx/admin/ctxf<version>.txt
$ORACLE_HOME/ctx/admin/ctxf<version>.sql
where version is 920,101,102
For instance, if upgrading from 10.2.0
*1. For dictionary files check*
*$ORACLE_HOME/ctx/admin/ctxf102.txt*
*2. Execute the script as database user SYS,SYSTEM, or CTXSYS*
*$ORACLE_HOME/ctx/admin/ctxf102.sql*
If your Oracle Text index uses KOREAN_LEXER which was deprecated in Oracle 9i and desupported in Oracle 10g Release 2, see below Note for further information on manual migration from KOREAN_LEXER to KOREAN_MORPH_LEXER.
Note 300172.1 Obsolescence of KOREAN_LEXER Lexer Type

Hi Srini
Thank you very much. now i got it.
Oracle asked me to identify the CTXCAT indexes with KOREAN_LEXER execute the following query as user CTXSYS: if nothing return then i can skip this step.
SELECT idx_name
FROM ctxsys.ctx_indexes
WHERE idx_type = 'CTXCAT'
AND idx_name IN
(SELECT ixo_index_name
FROM ctxsys.ctx_index_objects
WHERE ixo_class = 'LEXER'
AND ixo_object = 'KOREAN_MORPH_LEXER ');
SELECT isl_index_owner,isl_index_name,isl_language
FROM CTXSYS.ctx_index_sub_lexers
WHERE isl_object = 'KOREAN_MORPH_LEXER';

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