Re: How to do a keyword search of a column without doing a table scan?

> I have a table that consist of a title column and I would like to do a
> keyword search. For example,
>
> select ID, Title from Books where Title like '%Database%'
>
> However, the search will do a table scan without using the index on the
> Title column.
>
> One way to overcome this problem is to split all the words in the title
> column, put all the words in keywords table, index the words column and link
> to the primary key in the Book table. However, the keywords table will be
> very large and I need to generate the keywords table again if I make changes
> to the Books table.
>
> How do I solve this problem? How do I do a keyword search without having to
> do a table scan?

Have you looked at the Context cartridge that Oracle distributes with version 8.x?

Daniel A. Morgan Received on Sat Sep 12 1998 - 00:00:00 CDT