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From: tprife@venus.lerc.nasa.gov (Mike Rife (Boeing))
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Integrated relational and full text database
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Date: 20 Sep 90 21:35:42 GMT
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In article <2675@esquire.dpw.com>, yost@DPW.COM (David A. Yost) writes...
>I want to see an RDBMS that has
>   * full text search capability
>   * fuzzy word matching
>with SQL extensions to cover the added functionality.
> 
>An integration of full text search capabilities
>with the familiar SQL querying capabilities would
>enable some great applications.
> 
>Does anyone know of a database product that has these
>features or is going in these directions?
> 
> --dave yost

Dave,
  At last year's International Oracle User's Week in Dallas, Oracle had a 
presentation on one of their products called SQL*Textretrieval.  I know a very
little about it.  You can place documents into oracle tables and do special
text retrievals and word matching on the documents.  Since the documents are
in Oracle tables, you can use SQL on the text also.  Contact Oracle and I'm
sure they would give you all the information you need.