At 11:01 -0400 10/9/07, Baron Schwartz wrote:
>I've built similar systems with a series of UNION queries. Each UNION has a column
> for "relevance", which can be a sum of CASE statements, such as
>
>IF(<name matches>, 1, 0) + IF(<text matches>, 1, 0) AS relevance...
>
>The entire UNION can then be ordered by relevance. You could also just add in an
> arbitrary number in each UNION, to get the effect of ordering by where in the hierarchy
> the match is found.
Oo-er. This sounds marvellous, and I /think/ I see what you're getting at, but it's a bit
beyond anything I've done before - never used UNION for instance. Can you perhaps go into
a little more detail?
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Cheers... Chris
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