>>Full text indexing - quite close to the phonetic and similarity searches I sometimes have to cope with. Too bad I never bought a copy of PhdBase when it was on the market, might have given me ideas and/or benchmarks to compare with, both in speed and in result quality. Wish I could find it anywhere
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>PhDbase was discontinued because of problems when a new VFP version (8?) was released. It would work until the tables reached a certain size, then it would crash VFP and even ruin the data if you were unlucky. They found no solution, and decided to stop the sale.
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Thx for the pointer - but at least it could serve as a comparison to fuel own ideas.
I might still get some use - not in production, but - with safety measures - in research.
Do you happen to own one or know somebody who does ?

thx

thomas