Overview

This section provides an overview of the module.

The is a collection of data types and routines that extend HCL OneDB™ to enable you to search your data in ways that are faster and more sophisticated than the keyword matching that SQL provides. Excalibur text search capabilities include phrase matching, exact and fuzzy searches, compensation for misspelling, and synonym matching.

This section includes the following topics:
  • Text search concepts and terminology
  • Overview of the etx access method
  • Overview of creating an etx index
  • Basics of performing keyword and Boolean searches
  • Word list concepts and use
  • User-defined character sets concepts and use
  • Overview of highlighting the clue in the search text

Although this section does contain examples, it does not contain step-by-step instructions that explain how to use the .