Re: data with dynamic schema stored in a column as a property list.

2004-10-09 Thread Santino
Hello, I think you can use a fulltext index and a regex: select * from table where match( ftfield) against ('+interests +reading' in boolean mode) and ftfield rlike your regexp or select * from table where match( ftfield) against ('+interests +reading' in boolean mode) having ftfield rlike yo

Re: data with dynamic schema stored in a column as a property list.

2004-10-08 Thread SGreen
ty, can oracle do such things? I'm kind of > far away from oracle but > not too long ago I learned there is no way that I can store long > text and using sql query > the text in oracle tables. > - Original Message ----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To

Re: data with dynamic schema stored in a column as a property list.

2004-10-08 Thread Elim Qiu
st Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 8:15 AM Subject: Re: data with dynamic schema stored in a column as a property list. Have you considered a combination of Full-text indexing (to quickly locate a subset of records that may match your criteria) and regular expression matching (to elimina

Re: data with dynamic schema stored in a column as a property list.

2004-10-08 Thread SGreen
Have you considered a combination of Full-text indexing (to quickly locate a subset of records that may match your criteria) and regular expression matching (to eliminate the non-matching results from the results of the full-text search)? I know it's two steps but your "data" is practically op

data with dynamic schema stored in a column as a property list.

2004-10-07 Thread Elim Qiu
Hi, instead of xml, i stored arbitrary data of the form (the actual usage of such mechanism is for more fancy stuff, say, dynamic configuration, otherwise this is really not necessary) { name = "Fn, Ln"; // string value gender = F;

data with dynamic schema stored in a column as a property list.

2004-10-07 Thread Elim Qiu
Hi, instead of xml, i stored arbitrary data of the form (the actual usage of such mechanism is for more fancy stuff, say, dynamic configuration, otherwise this is really not necessary) { name = "Fn, Ln"; // string value gender = F;