Thursday 19 March 2009

Using Oracle Text with Table Data

Using LIKE clause with large tables may be a serious performance problem, involving full table scans for even a very small result set. The time you need to get a result will increase tremendously. Using Oracle Text may help you overcome those issues. In this simple example in my Demo Application I am showing how to start using Oracle Text on a table. There are also many other features included with Oracle Text such as preferred terms, fuzzy searches, highlighting, and much more. All explained in Oracle Text Documentation. Try it out.



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27 comments:

  1. Anonymous19 March 2009 at 19:40

    How can I tell if I have oracle text installed?

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  2. Denes Kubicek19 March 2009 at 22:47

    John,

    Oracle Text should be there by default. Check if there is CTXSYS User. If not, then either the database has been upgraded from an early version where it was not a default, or someone has removed it.

    Denes Kubicek

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  3. Saima12 August 2009 at 16:48

    Hello There...
    I am using Oracle 9i and logged in by SCOTT schema is EMP, I've used your code script as it is.. but got this error message

    ORA-20000 :Oracle Text Error
    DRG-12607: Only CTXSYS can create Multi-Column preferences

    Is your script is complete?? Please need further help.Thanks

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  4. Denes Kubicek12 August 2009 at 16:59

    The step by step explanation says:

    "GRANT EXECUTE ON ctx_ddl TO schema_name;"

    Have you done that part?

    Denes Kubicek

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  5. Saima12 August 2009 at 19:54

    Really thanks for your urgent Reply!
    Yes have tried... and got thir error message

    ORA-04042: Procedure,function,package,or package body does not exist


    Again thanks and Regrads...

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  6. Saima13 August 2009 at 16:04

    Hello
    Now have successfully granted.
    Now in my Enterprise Manager of Oracle 9i I can view object of my schema scott as
    GRANTED
    Priviliege | Schema | Object
    EXECUTE | CTXSYS | CTX_DDL

    But facing the same problem of that erroe have earlier posted to you.
    Please help if you can,
    Thanks and Best Regards

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  7. Sruthi8 October 2009 at 13:42

    Hi,

    The demo doen't work now. Also, you haven't mentioned how the search text is highlighted? Could you please explain that?

    Thanks,

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  8. Denes Kubicek8 October 2009 at 14:03

    The demo works now. Someone must have deleted the indexes. Highlighting is standard apex highlighting.

    Denes Kubicek

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  9. Unknown23 March 2010 at 20:32

    It can index a blob field or should I do differently?

    Because I did it like you explain but just wanted varchar fields and not by the content of the blob field

    which is my fault?

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  10. Denes Kubicek23 March 2010 at 20:46

    I don't understand what you are asking.

    Denes Kubicek

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  11. Unknown23 March 2010 at 21:02

    as index a blob field?

    examples: .pdf, .docx, .txt...
    I need to seek within content

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  12. Denes Kubicek23 March 2010 at 21:04

    O.K. now I understand. See this example:

    http://apex.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=31517:76

    Denes Kubicek

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  13. Unknown25 March 2010 at 12:36

    Denes thanks is what I needed!
    I will try and tell you!!

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  14. Unknown25 March 2010 at 15:21

    Hi, Denes!
    There are problems with indexing versions .pdf or .docx ??

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  15. Denes Kubicek25 March 2010 at 15:23

    Are you using 11g database?

    Denes Kubicek

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  16. Unknown25 March 2010 at 15:42

    Yes, Oracle 11g.

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  17. Denes Kubicek25 March 2010 at 16:01

    I had the same problem with 11g and I asked for a solution here:

    http://forums.oracle.com/forums/message.jspa?messageID=4044126#4044126

    Never had a chance to try the tips. You may give it a shot.

    Denes Kubicek

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  18. Unknown25 March 2010 at 16:33

    is wonderful! It worked for. Pdf but not for. Docx
    Anyway it's great. Thank you very much!!

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  19. Denes Kubicek25 March 2010 at 16:35

    O.K. What worked?

    Denes Kubicek

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  20. Unknown25 March 2010 at 16:46

    as you say?

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  21. Denes Kubicek25 March 2010 at 16:51

    My question was:

    Was it this part:

    "I have found that, although it should not make a difference, sometimes it helps to explicitly declare the filter in your parameters when creating the index:"

    ?

    Denes Kubicek

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  22. Unknown25 March 2010 at 16:58

    Yes!
    that part is it works:
    ...FILTER TXSYS.AUTO_FILTER...



    but the documents .docx not indexed

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  23. Denes Kubicek25 March 2010 at 16:59

    Does it index .doc files or .xls?

    Denes Kubicek

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  24. Unknown25 March 2010 at 19:02

    - Document generated by Office Word 2007 with extension .docx are not indexed.

    - Document generated by Office Word 2003 if they are indexed.

    - Document generated by Office Excel 2003 with extension .xls if they are indexed but not displayed for ctx_doc.snippet.

    Document generated by Office Excel 2007 with extension .xlsx are not indexed.

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  25. Denes Kubicek25 March 2010 at 22:21

    O.K. thanks for checking. So only .docx and .xlsx are not indexed?

    Denes Kubicek

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  26. abulfeeed14 January 2017 at 21:18

    This is great. I followed your instructions and it worked beautifully. When my search term is more than one word, it doesn't work. Do you know how i can fix that?
    thank you

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  27. Denes Kubicek20 January 2017 at 13:21

    try rebuilding the index

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