Thanks for the reply. We had the search within the database initially, but
it proven to be too slow. With solr we have much better performance.
One more question, how could I find the most current job for each employee
My data looks like
John Smith department A web site bug fix 2010-01-01
2010-01-03
unit testing
2010-01-04 2010-01-06
QA support
2010-01-07 2010-01-12
implementation 2010-01-13
2010-01-22
Jane Doe department A QA support 2010-01-01
2010-05-01
implementation 2010-05-02
2010-09-28
Joe Doe department A PHP development 2011-01-01
2011-08-31
Java Development 2011-09-01
2011-09-15
I would like to return this as my search result
John Smith department A implementation 2010-01-13
2010-01-22
Jane Doe department A implementation 2010-05-02
2010-09-28
Joe Doe department A Java Development 2011-09-01
2011-09-15
Thanks in advance
Gary
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <rochk...@jhu.edu> wrote:
> You didn't tell us what your schema looks like, what fields with what types
> are involved.
>
> But similar to how you'd do it in your database, you need to find
> 'documents' that have a start date before your date in question, and an end
> date after your date in question, to find the ones whose range includes your
> date in question.
>
> Something like this:
>
> q=start_date:[* TO '2010-01-05'] AND end_date:['2010-01-05' TO *]
>
> Of course, you need to add on your restriction to just documents about
> 'John Smith', through another AND clause or an 'fq'.
>
> But in general, if you've got a db with this info already, and this is all
> you need, why not just use the db? Multi-hieararchy data like this is going
> to give you trouble in Solr eventually, you've got to arrange the solr
> indexes/schema to answer your questions, and eventually you're going to have
> two questions which require mutually incompatible schema to answer.
>
> An rdbms is a great general purpose question answering tool for structured
> data. lucene/Solr is a great indexing tool for text matching.
>
>
> On 9/15/2011 2:55 PM, gary tam wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I have a scenario that I am not sure how to write the query for.
>>
>> Here is the scenario - have an employee record with multi value for
>> project,
>> started date, end date.
>>
>> looks something like
>>
>>
>> John Smith web site bug fix 2010-01-01 2010-01-03
>> unit testing 2010-01-04
>> 2010-01-06
>> QA support 2010-01-07
>> 2010-01-12
>> implementation 2010-01-13
>> 2010-01-22
>>
>> I want to find what project John Smith was working on 2010-01-05
>>
>> Is this possible or I have to back to my database ?
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
