Hello,

I have a search web form that search for the results in a SQL Server database. What I want to do is when I search, the results would look like (say the search is for "database"):

... this is what you need to do with a database that is the size of the state of Idaho... the whole database doesn't seem to be in third normal form...

Similar to how you see other search engines retrieve an abstract based on your search results. I only want to keep so many words to the left and right of the searched word(s). Is it possible to alter an ADO.NET DataSet's values to do this, and more importantly, is it realistic, or would there be many performance issues?

Thanks,

Brian Mains

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Brian

I don't think you'll have much luck with built in methods to achieve this, but it won't be that hard to write what you need. Whatever you are using to output the data will need to handle the stripping of the text around the search term.

Logically, we can assume there will be some performance hit because you'll be running more code to strip down the result, but it should be negligable.

How are you planningon displaying the results? DataGrid/DataList?

Peter
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Work smarter, not harder.

I planned on a data grid control for the results, in most (if not all) of the situations.

Thanks.

Have you optimized your sql server for searching?

http://www.sql-server-performance.co...timization.asp

Yeah, I had tried to use full-text indexing to work in the past on my tables; however, I couldn't get it to work! The DBA had set it up on my tables, and I tried to query the full text index, but it wouldn't work...