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Text Extender: Administration and Programming


How this book is structured

This book contains the following chapters:

Part 1: Guide

Chapter 1, "An overview of DB2 extenders"
Introduces Text Extender and describes other products in the DB2 Extender family.

Chapter 2, "Planning a text index"
Helps you decide which type of text index suits your requirements.

Text Extender administrators need this information to help them set up the default index type in the text configuration information.

Text Extender users need this information when enabling a text table, or individual text columns for searching.

Chapter 3, "Linguistic processing"
How Text Extender analyses document terms when indexing, search terms when searching, and matched terms when highlighting in a found document.

Text Extender users need this information to help them build more effective search terms.

Chapter 4, "Administration"
Describes the Text Extender command line processor.

Text Extender administrators need this information when setting up a Text Extender server. users.

Text Extender users need this information to prepare tables and individual text columns for use by Text Extender.

Chapter 5, "Searching with Text Extender UDFs"
Describes the user-defined SQL functions (UDFs) provided by Text Extender.

Text Extender users need this information when including text search subqueries in SQL queries.

Chapter 6, "Using the API functions for searching and browsing"
Describes the application program interface (API) functions provided by Text Extender.

Text Extender users need this information when including text search subqueries in application programs.

Part 2: Reference

Chapter 7, "Administration commands for the client"
Syntax and description of the administration commands for the client in alphabetical order.

Chapter 8, "Administration commands for the server"
Syntax and description of the administration commands for the server in alphabetical order.

Chapter 9, "UDTs and UDFs"
Description of the UDTs provided by Text Extender, and the syntax and description of the Text Extender UDFs in alphabetical order.

Chapter 10, "Syntax of search arguments"
The syntax of search arguments used in SQL queries and in the API functions.

Chapter 11, "API functions for searching and browsing"
The syntax and description of the API functions in alphabetical order.

Chapter 12, "Return codes"
An explanation of the return codes from the API functions.

Chapter 13, "Messages"
An explanation of the messages from the UDFs, and from the administration command line processor.

Chapter 14, "Configuration"
A description of environment variables for Text Extender, and of the text configuration that contains default setup information.

Chapter 15, "Sample API program"
A sample C program that uses the API functions.

Chapter 16, "Error event reason codes"
A description of error-event reason codes that can occur during indexing.


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