On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:33:42 -0400 S Ahmed <sahmed1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I understand (and its straightforward) when you want to create a > index for something simple like Products. > > But how do you go about creating a Solr index when you have data > coming from 10-15 database tables, and the tables have unrelated > data? > > The issue is then you would have many 'columns' in your index, > and they will be NULL for much of the data since you are trying > to shove 15 db tables into a single Solr/Lucense index. [...] This should not be a problem. With the Solr DataImportHandler, any NULL values for a given record will simply be ignored, i.e., the Solr index for that document will not contain an entry for that field. Regards, Gora
