It definitely can index CLOBs, not so sure about BLOBs. I did some quick hunting around and Verity does have a product that will index BLOBs, but I'm not sure if that capability is built into the version that ships with CF or not. I'll try and look some more later and see if I can find anything specific.
Matt On 4/27/05, Knipp, Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can Verity index a database full of clobs or blobs? We store all of our > "document library" in this manner. The table is full of pdf's, Word docs, > etc. > > Eric > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Ivanoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 8:54 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Anyone Interested in Learning About Verity? > > i'd like to know more... > > > On 4/27/05, Matt Woodward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So far I've been extremely impressed with the speed of Verity in CFMX > > 7. They did away with the non-K2 side of Verity in CF 7 so everything > > is K2. They also (finally!) upgraded from Verity 2.x that was in CF > > through 6.1 and are now on Verity 5.5, which is quite a step forward > > in both features and performance. > > > > Right now we have about 10,000 documents in our main collection and > > the search times are never more than about 15 milliseconds on our dev > > server, which is a VMWare server so on our production servers it > > should hold up really well. I'm going to be doing some load testing > > with LoadRunner soon so I should be able to report on the scalability > > by the time the meeting rolls around. > > > > I haven't used full text indexing in SQL Server in quite a while (and > > know nothing about what's up with SQL Server 2005 in this regard), but > > there are some really nice features in Verity that as far as I know > > aren't in most RDBMS. > > > > The meeting location DID change. For May we're meeting in the > > AidMatrix office which is inside the i2 Building at 635 and Luna. For > > June forward we'll be meeting in the TEKSystems offices which is also > > pretty much at 635 and Luna. I'll send out another email about this > > before the meeting and get the web site updated. > > > > Matt > > > > On 4/26/05, Mark Knox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sounds really good to me Matt. We've found that in most cases we can > > > leverage the power of SQL-Server to provide fast and efficient searches, > but > > > I'd really like to see what Verity can do in CFMX 7. In CFMX 6.x, it > seemed > > > to be a little bit of a resource hog and was slow. > > > > > > BTW, where is the next meeting going to be? Did the location change? > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > Mark Knox > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] On > Behalf > > > Of Matt Woodward > > > Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 10:16 PM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: Anyone Interested in Learning About Verity? > > > > > > In looking ahead to the June meeting I thought I'd ask if folks would be > > > interested in learning more about Verity, what's new with Verity in CF > 7, > > > and how you can leverage this extremely powerful tool to build some > amazing > > > search engines very easily. I'm in the process of building an entirely > new > > > search tool for i2's intranet and knowledge management system, so if > people > > > would be interested in this, I'd be happy to share what I've learned > thus > > > far, walk through my code, and show you the end results. > > > > > > Even if you don't want to hear about it in a meeting, you really, really > owe > > > it to yourself to check out Verity if you haven't. I had used it a bit > in > > > the past for some very simple purposes, but after reading up on it, > messing > > > with it pretty extensively for the past few weeks, and getting some help > > > from the experts, I'm really excited about what all Verity can do. > > > Particularly with the new features in CF 7 you'll probably be amazed at > the > > > power that's already running in CF and how easy it is to use. > > > > > > OK, enough gushing. ;-) Let me know if that sounds like a cool topic > for > > > June or another future meeting, and here's a couple of links to check > out if > > > you want to learn more: > > > > > > http://tinyurl.com/c879c > > > http://tinyurl.com/by3an > > > > > > Matt > > > -- > > > Matt Woodward > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://www.mattwoodward.com > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > > To post, send email to [email protected] > > > To unsubscribe: > > > http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberUnsubscribe.cfm > > > To subscribe: > > > http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberRegistration.cfm > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > > To post, send email to [email protected] > > > To unsubscribe: > > > http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberUnsubscribe.cfm > > > To subscribe: > > > http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberRegistration.cfm > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Matt Woodward > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.mattwoodward.com > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > To post, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe: > > http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberUnsubscribe.cfm > > To subscribe: > > http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberRegistration.cfm > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > > > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information contained in this e-mail and > attached document(s) may contain confidential information that is intended > only for the addressee(s). 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