Workarounds for searching a text field in SQL Server 2000

Hi,
I have a need to search within a text field in SQL Server 2000. In the
limitations section it notes that this is not possible. Is there a
recommended workaround for this in terms of performance? I have no way
of knowing the length of the text field in advance, and this could be
fairly large. Also, the number of objects that could contain the text
can be fairly large as well.
Thanks in advance,
Khamsouk

Note that some databases (or Oracle, at least) provide alternatives to
LIKE '%foo%' that are more efficient for large text blocks, given that
you have the appropriate indexing plugins etc. etc.
To use one of those types of search operators, you'd have to put
together a custom extension.
-Fred
Fred Lucas <[email protected]> wrote:
I'm assuming that when you say 'a text field', you're referring to a
SQLServer TEXT field, as opposed to just any old field that contains
text.
Like I said, I'm by no means a SQLServer pro, but I just ran:
SELECT CLOBSTRINGX
FROM LOCATORTESTOBJECTX
WHERE CLOBSTRINGX LIKE '%o%';
and got back my test row with 'foo' in the CLOBSTRINGX column.
CLOBSTRINGX is a TEXT column.
So, it is possible that our stringContains() extension will just work.
But then again, maybe not. I'm guessing it will.
Give it a try and, if you get an error, post the generated SQL (turn on
SQL output by setting the com.solarmetric.kodo.Logger property to
'stdout') and the error that you get. Also, try executing the generated
SQL directly against your data store to see if it works there.
-Fred
Khamsouk Souvanlasy <[email protected]> wrote:
Basically I just want to use kodo's extended stringContains syntax on a
text field. Is this possible?
Khamsouk
Fred Lucas wrote:
I'm not intimitely familiar with SQLServer's text searching
capabilities, but I'm confident that you could create a query extension
that would do what you need it to do.
What is the SQL that you are trying to generate?
-Fred
Khamsouk Souvanlasy <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
I have a need to search within a text field in SQL Server 2000. In the
limitations section it notes that this is not possible. Is there a
recommended workaround for this in terms of performance? I have no way
of knowing the length of the text field in advance, and this could be
fairly large. Also, the number of objects that could contain the text
can be fairly large as well.
Thanks in advance,
Khamsouk
Fred Lucas
SolarMetric Inc.
202-595-2064 x1122
http://www.solarmetric.com

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