On 13 Aug 2001 21:11:21 -0700, Michael Collins wrote:
> Is there a common approach to searching within text columns that
> contain fairly large blocks of text (30,000 - 65,000 characters)? Is
> the recommendation, simply don't do it or is there some sort of
> workaround? I suppose one can search within these columns using the
> LIKE and % wildcards and risk slowing down activity to a crawl. I
> suppose indexing is not going to help in this case at all. But what
> does one do when it becomes more important that the search occur at
> all despite the time that it might take?
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