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Raymond Lee Meng Hong wrote:
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> Hello , Is there anyone use Oracle Intermedia Text .
>
> What is the usage of this product ? As a banking solution ,we only use
> Report, Form ,Database for our customer , what kind of other oracle product
> can we integrate into our solution ?
>
> Raymond Lee

Raymond,

   Intermedia allows you to perform a search for words on text stored in SINGLE columns - varchar2, CLOB, or even a Word document stored as a BLOB. Difference with LIKE '%word%' (which won't work on a BLOB)? Performance. It indexes (into 'applicative' indexes - tables in fact) the full text (bar words you specify as non significant). It is to be compared to defining key words and associating them to a document - with full text search it's just like if every word had been defined as a key word and indexed accordingly. A bit heavy to put in place (you must start servers etc.) but useful if you are handling documents. If you are dealing mainly with figures, dates and relatively short strings you have no use for it. The bulk of commercial and retail banking needs no Intermedia. However, if you want to store reports by analysts, and want to make them easily searchable by investment banking people or security dealers, then you may consider it. You may also consider competitive products such as Documentum, which is also well known.

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  Stephane Faroult
  Oriole Corporation
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