for a simple, hackish (albeit inefficient) approach look up wildcard searchers
e,g foo*, *bar On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Devon Baumgarten <dbaumgar...@nationalcorp.com> wrote: > I have been tinkering with Solr for a few weeks, and I am convinced that it > could be very helpful in many of my upcoming projects. I am trying to decide > whether Solr is appropriate for this one, and I haven't had luck looking for > answers on Google. > > I need to search a list of names of companies and individuals pretty exactly. > T-SQL's LIKE operator does this with decent performance, but I have a feeling > there is a way to configure Solr to do this better. I've tried using an edge > N-gram tokenizer, but it feels like it might be more complicated than > necessary. What would you suggest? > > I know this sounds kind of 'Golden Hammer,' but there has been talk of other, > more complicated (magic) searches that I don't think SQL Server can handle, > since its tokens (as far as I know) can't be smaller than one word. > > Thanks, > > Devon Baumgarten >
