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Posted - 2004-12-07 : 08:39:47
James writes "Hello. Thanks for looking at this question.

I've built a stored procedure which searches within an OPENQUERY for Indexing Services on Windows 2000. I have no problems looking within .doc, .xls, .ppt types of files and finding results. For example: proc_search 'yak' would result in a table containing columns filename, path, characterization, author.
The only caveat to this method is that I'm unable to return the contents of the file.

My question to you is, how can I extend my search stored procedure to return a snippet of the actual contents within a document? My results would be much akin to the 'google desktop search'. The example below shows what I'm hoping to do, with the word 'development' bolded to show as search term.

proc_Search 'development'
Contents of #results:

FILE: Runbook.doc
CONTENT: OLAP Database Development blahblah
PATH: C:\jcat\Runbook.doc

So far I have tried doing a bulk insert, dynamic BCP statement and next I'm going to try and make a dynamic DTS. Perhaps to answer this, I just need to know if I can import a DOC/XLS/PPT file through a filter or parser into a SQL table so that the contents are intact.

Thanks again for your time."
   

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