Need suggestions to write a PL/SQL program

Question

Hi,
We have some readme documents in different places. we need to keep the docs in specified folders. for example if we have around 100 docs we need to figure out the required docs by giving the just any one word from that doc name.
now the requirement is need to keep all the docs in one specified folder (check the product name, if the product is there then it will pick all the docs related to that particular product and keeps in separate folder). whenever we need to find out any one of the document from that product we need to give the short word from that doc name then it will show you the required doc.
So could you please let me know is it possible to write any PL/SQL program for the above requirement else suggest me which one will support to resolve the above requirement.
Kindly suggest me for the above request.
thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You may want to consider loading the documents into blobs or using BFILES.
BFILE defnition
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e17118/sql_elements001.htm#SQLRF50996
BLOB definition
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e17118/sql_elements001.htm#SQLRF50997
Regardless of whether you use BLOB's or BFILE's, you'll have to build a metadata table for each document.
For example, if you decided upon BLOB's, you would need some kind of metadata table as follows;
create table doc_table (id number, doc_name varchar2(20), b blob);
insert into doc_table values (1, 'DOC_A', to_blob('A'));
insert into doc_table values (2, 'DOC_B', to_blob('B'));
commit;
create table doc_metadata (id number, keyword varchar2(20));
insert into doc_metadata values (1, 'A');
insert into doc_metadata values (2, 'B');
commit;You would then search for a document based on a keyword, for example,
to find document A;
select dt.doc_Name      
from   doc_table    dt
      ,doc_metadata dm
where  dt.id = dm.id
and    dm.keyword like 'A';You could add more columns (as you like), for example location, size etc.