Jaromir, unless I'm missing something here, with OR, I would still need to build my contains clause. If the users' input string is "RAC Concepts and Administration", select * from texttable; TEXTID TEXT ---------- ---------------------------------------- 8 RAC - Real Application Clusters 9 RAC Concepts and Administration 10 Oracle9i DBA Administration 11 Concepts manual 12 Clustered Database Platform - RAC select textid, text,score(1) from texttable where contains (text,'RAC Concepts and Administration',1)>1; TEXTID TEXT SCORE(1) ---------- ---------------------------------------- ---------- 9 RAC Concepts and Administration 5 I would like any occurrences of "RAC", "Concepts" and "Administration" to appear too but I only get one exact match returned above. To get the rest of the records returned, I have to break up the input string into several OR's and build my SQL dynamically. ie select textid, text, score(1) from texttable where contains (text, 'RAC Concepts and Administration|RAC|Concepts|Administration',1)>1 order by score(1); TEXTID TEXT SCORE(1) ---------- ---------------------------------------- ---------- 8 RAC - Real Application Clusters 5 9 RAC Concepts and Administration 5 10 Oracle9i DBA Administration 5 11 Concepts manual 5 12 Clustered Database Platform - RAC 5 Now, I have all the records returned. However, the second issue I have is "RAC Concepts and Administration" is not listed first. Records with the exact string match should be listed first. Any idea how I can execute an Oracle Text query without having to dynamically building the OR clause and also displaying records with the exact match first? I believe Oracle Text should be able to easily handle that but I just do not know how. Thanks again. Ivan >From: "jaromir nemec" <jaromir@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >Reply-To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Subject: Re: "google search" using Oracle Text >Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 08:38:46 +0200 > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Ivan Chow" <ichow2@xxxxxxxxxxx> >To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 4:03 AM >Subject: "google search" using Oracle Text > > > >for example, if the search string is "Oracle Text", I would execute the > >following queries to retrieve the relevant records: > >select * from texttable where contains (text, 'Oracle Text')>1; > >select * from texttable where contains (text, 'Oracle')>1; > >select * from texttable where contains (text, 'Text')>1; > >to get a document with any of the query terms use OR (|) > >select * from texttable where contains (text, 'Oracle OR Text')>1; > > >see >http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/text.920/a96518/cqoper.htm#1531 > > >regards >Jaromir D.B. Nemec > > >PS: Mladen - fire (on) your backup admin. > > >---------------------------------------------------------------- >Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com >---------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. >-- >Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ >FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html >----------------------------------------------------------------- _________________________________________________________________ MSN Toolbar provides one-click access to Hotmail from any Web page ? FREE download! http://toolbar.msn.com/go/onm00200413ave/direct/01/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------