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SEARCH IN DATABASES

connecting to a database

SearchInform contains a ready data source for connecting to any database that have an installed in the system ADO driver or a ready ODBC connection. In order to connect to a database you have to customize the connection parameter string. When creating a connection you’ll have to first choose one of the drivers registered with the system for your database.

A standard procedure of customizing a connection to a database is to follow:

Having successfully customized connection to the database you can choose a way of retrieving data from a selected database:

If the option of retrieving data from tables is selected, all possible database tables will be displayed for the user to choose from:

For every object in the table all fields containing text data will be available for indexing.  The key field for record will be the primary key predefined in the table:

The connection customization procedure is complete after you’ve selected the fields to be indexed. Then comes information indexing.

SQL-query based entity search in databases