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Re: ascii vs SQL
****** message to minivend-users from Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> ******
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Michel Chamberland wrote:
> now that i got minivend to work with oracle (thanks to erik! :) i realize
> how bad SQL search is... does it means that using ascii text format is the
> only way to get a real good search engine? Also with a 96000 records, is a
> ascii database will be faster than oracle?
>
> Im to the point to go back to plain old text format, would that be my best
> move?
If free form text searches are required you want/need to use Glimpse
which implies products.asc.
If you can guide the users to the desired product using category/subcategory
menu driven searches, SQL gives you more flexability.
Dan
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