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DONE: Support for Full Text Indexes and search

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The search functionality in dbFront uses LIKE which can causes table scans. This performs very poorly on large tables. It would be great if dbFront could support the Full-Text indexes available in all of the database servers (SQL Server, Oracle and MySQL).

This would be relevant for both the Advanced and the Quick/Simple searchs.

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As of version 1.1.3, dbFront transparently supports Full-Text search for MySQL, Oracle and SQL Server. Full-Text search is classified as Enterprise functionality.

dbFront will automatically detect the Full-Text indexes and adjust queries to take advantage of any Full-Text indexes it knows about. This happens automatically in both Simple Search and in the Advanced Search.

Knowledgable users can construct advanced full-text search queries to take advantage of their specific database server. dbFront automatically detects advanced queries and processes them accordingly.

dbFront allows users to add a search prefix to force how the search is sent to the database. A search can be prefixed with "L:" to force the search to be treated as a simple LIKE query. Other prefixes are database specific.

MySql Full-Text Search can be run in three different modes:

  • Boolean (B:), Natural Language (N:) and Query Expansion (E:).

Oracle Text Search has a single flexible mode:

  • Contains (C:).

SQL Server Full-Text Search can be run in two different modes:

  • Contains (C:) and FreeText (F:).

For more details see: Full-Text Search

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