>>>10 gb table, with full text search, accessed over a wan. You can use Fox Data and I'll use SQL Server.
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>>On the UniversalThread we can perform a search on all messages (in the last six months) containing a certain string.
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>>Does this qualify as full text search?
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>>If not,
>>could you please define 'full text search'.
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>I also read somewhere that SQL Server's 'full text search (or is it indexing)' capability is NOT (repeat: NOT) delivered in MSDE.
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>**IF** that turns out to be true then Iguess MSDE <> SQL Server.
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>cheers

the Full Text Search service is not licensed for use with MSDE.
However, anything you do program with MSDE CAN work in SQL Server.
so it is not an 'if and only if' relationship with database functions of each product.

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>>Thanks,
>>Dave.