I don't know if it can do a db search. I'd suspect no, as its power is in
burning through tons of text. But then, I've never seen why people use
Verity for db searches. The problem I see is that once your db is modified
after you index your Verity collection, you are sitting on an inaccurate
index. And yes you could re-index your collection every time the db is
modified; but with that much going on, ya might as well execute your search
directly in SQL anyway.
Of course, the "change content = inaccurate index" issue is also true for
dtSearch. However, compared to db content, text documents tend to not change
as much, and are more suitable to a batch-process indexing scheme.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marsh, Jeffrey B [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 10:58 AM
> To: Fusebox
> Subject: RE: URGENT ! fusebox model and site search
>
> Alan,
>
> Can dtSearch search a database? Can you give a field or two in a table to
> search?
>
> ---
> Jeffrey B. Marsh
> Professionals built the Titanic.
> Amateurs built the Ark.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: McCollough, Alan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 9:25 AM
> To: Fusebox
> Subject: RE: URGENT ! fusebox model and site search
>
> I gave up on Verity. I went to their website and scrounged all over.
> Nothing. They wanted something like $25,000 for their full-blown product,
> so
> I decided it was nuts, and totally gave up on it.
>
> Here is what I like about dtSearch: It runs bullet fast, uses up little in
> the way of resources, can be set to do its indexing magic at night, and
> their tech support staff has gone out of their way to help me with dumb
> questions. The thing was running within a day and hasn't conked out since.
>
> One slick thing about dtSearch is that it automatically highlights any
> matching phrases, and this is also within PDF documents. And, their search
> engine can be made to behave very loose. You'll get matches with bad
> spelling, similar words, etc. I can't speak for the K2 version of Verity,
> but y'all know how picky the current version is with misspellings.
>
> Oh yeah, and get this: I'm migrating our intranet content to a new
> webserver, and all the dtSearch stuff transfered fine with very little
> needing to be re-done. They use a relative-path directory indexing scheme,
> so when I dumped all those big indexes (compare to a Collection within
> Verity) on to the new webserver, they automatically worked right where I
> dumped 'em. No need to re-index my content. That one feature alone made it
> worth the bucks. Which would be $999 retail, from www.dtsearch.com ... And
> I
> ain't no paid spokesman, just a happy user.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Hal Helms [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 3:05 PM
> > To: Fusebox
> > Subject: RE: URGENT ! fusebox model and site search
> >
> > ***************************** Team Allaire *****************************
> > Alan,
> >
> > Have you worked with the new K2 version of Verity in CF 5? Is it still
> > fairly lame? (I know virtually NOTHING about Verity).
> >
> > Hal
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: McCollough, Alan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 5:09 PM
> > To: Fusebox
> > Subject: RE: URGENT ! fusebox model and site search
> >
> >
> > Yeah, but when you have the [IMHO] lamest (Verity) search engine ever? I
> > gave up with Verity and went to using dtSearch. Works like a champ.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 10:43 AM
> > > To: Fusebox
> > > Subject: RE: URGENT ! fusebox model and site search
> > >
> > > Using third pary spiders when you have da best web application
> language
> > > (cf)
> > > at your disposal?. No way
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Tom Briscoe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 9:42 PM
> > > To: Fusebox
> > > Subject: Re: URGENT ! fusebox model and site search
> > >
> > >
> > > You could consider outsourcing to a third party which will spider your
> > > site.
> > > But you'll pay for it.
> > >
> > > http://www.atomz.com/
> > > http://www.searchbutton.com/
> > >
> > > Tom Briscoe
> > > Web Developer
> > > Compass Bank
> > >
> > > >>> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/29/01
> > > 10:27AM >>>
> > > Hi,
> > > I need to develop a site search functionality for the site i am
> working
> > > on.
> > > the site is divided into several circuit applications like news
> section
> > ,
> > > updates sections,products listings , and static pages etc .The client
> > > wants
> > > to have a complete site search on both the applications as well as the
> > > static pages.
> > > the web hosting service ,the site is hosted on has disabled verity so
> i
> > > am
> > > looking for another alterntive without using verity for this.
> > > Please rush in any ideas you have for the same, except changing the
> > > hosting
> > > service :).
> > >
> > > I need some ideas urgently.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance
> > > regards,
> > > Amit
> > >
> >
>
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