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Working with databases
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Working with databases
MBD Search Engine works with databases of native (MBD) format containing text and pictures.
The Database in the combination with MBD Search Engine is the information retrieval system that
help you to find needed information in a fraction of a second. You can create database by your
own files or corporative document storage or get databases from the information vendor.
Thus work with MBD SE begins from the database creation.
5.1
Creating database
Working with MBD SE begins from database creation. Files from specified by user paths
including subfolders are used to create database.
Notice! To create database you must have at least two times more free hard disk space then the
source text size.
Database creation process is monitored in the creator window. Process is divided into four parts:
looking for files, writing to database, creating index and inflating index.
Looking for files
During this stage program is looking for the files of known formats in specified folders and its
subfolders. Whole size of documents is calculated.
Writing to database
Then program extracts information from the found files and writes it to the created database .mbd
file.
Index creation and index inflating
Index is created during last two creation stages. Index creation speed is about 50 Mb of text per
minute or 3 Gb/hour. Index files have .ss extension.
To create database, press “Create” button on the toolbar. Enter new unique database name in
the dialog appeared. Database name can consist of letters (case does not matter), digits,
underline, space and dash symbol. For example, type «My Database». Database file will be
automatically placed in subdirectory with the database name.
Push "Next >" button.
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