How does WebCatalog search the database?

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1997


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texte = Im a newbie to WebCatalog and this list, so excuse me if Im asking the obvious...But my question is: How does WebCatalog search its data? As it uses a flat file databases one should expect it to do a search through the entire file before returning the matching data. This is, as I understand it, not a good way if the database contains _many_ records. So my questin is: does WebCatalog index the data when it loads a database into memory? If not, hos does WebCatalog perform when it comes to BIG databases?Hope someone can answer me on this :)Per Christian Lied, pk@pluto.wit.no Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: How does WebCatalog search the database? (Kenneth Grome 1997)
  2. Re: How does WebCatalog search the database? (John Hill 1997)
  3. How does WebCatalog search the database? (Per Christian Lied 1997)
Im a newbie to WebCatalog and this list, so excuse me if Im asking the obvious...But my question is: How does WebCatalog search its data? As it uses a flat file databases one should expect it to do a search through the entire file before returning the matching data. This is, as I understand it, not a good way if the database contains _many_ records. So my questin is: does WebCatalog index the data when it loads a database into memory? If not, hos does WebCatalog perform when it comes to BIG databases?Hope someone can answer me on this :)Per Christian Lied, pk@pluto.wit.no Per Christian Lied

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