This chapter begins with a short section on managing a Text Extender server, but is mainly concerned with the administration of Text Extender clients. It describes how to prepare text documents for use by Text Extender, and how to maintain text indexes. This chapter assumes that the text documents you intend to search for are already stored in one or more table columns.
If you prefer, at this stage, to test Text Extender's search capabilities by working with a sample database containing text documents that are already prepared, you can skip to Preparing a sample database containing enabled text, and then continue with Chapter 5, Searching with Text Extender UDFs.