CHAPTER 27Using Oracle Text for Text Searches
As the amount of text in your database increases, so does the complexity of the text queries performed against the database. Instead of just performing string matches, you will need new text-search features—such as weighting the terms in a search of multiple terms, or ranking the results of a text search.
You can use Oracle Text to perform text-based searches. Text-searching capabilities include wildcard searching, "fuzzy matches," relevance ranking, proximity searching, term weighting, and word expansions. In this chapter, you'll see how to configure and use Oracle Text.
Adding Text to the Database
You can add text to a database either by physically storing the text in a table or by storing pointers ...
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