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The Omnidex Administration manual discussed the features of Omnidex, the approaches to designing, developing and deploying applications, and the techniques for achieving the best performance. This manual is appropriate reading for both Omnidex Administrators and Omnidex Developers. Administrators should become well-versed in nearly all topics discussed here. Developers should become familiar with the early sections, but can skip the later sections.
Choose from the topics of the Administration manual:
| Administration Basics |
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| Omnidex Architecture | How Omnidex fits into a server, data and application architecture. |
| Building Applications | How to design, develop and deploy Omnidex applications. |
| Omnidex Basics |
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| Omnidex Environment Files | How to mange Omnidex Environments, the heart of the Omnidex-enhanced database. |
| Omnidex SQL Engine | How to use the SQL interface to Omnidex-enhanced databases. |
| Omnidex Indexing | How to use Omnidex Indexing to speed queries and increase search flexibility. |
| Omnidex Updates | How to update an Omnidex database. |
| Omnidex on Relational Databases | How to use Omnidex on a relational database, such as Oracle, SQL Server or MySQL. |
| Omnidex on Raw Data Files | How to use Omnidex on raw data files. |
| Omnidex on Delimited Files | How to use Omnidex on delimited data files. |
| Omnidex Features |
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| ActiveCounts | How to add interactive counts into an application. |
| PowerSearch | How to search based on synonyms, misspellings and other features. |
| AutoComplete | How to provide auto-complete features into an application. |
| Omnidex Text | How to index large blocks of textual data in a database. |
| Geographic Searches | How to perform geographic searches based on longitude and latitude. |
| Omnidex Snapshots | How to create Omnidex Snapshots, a portable copy of your data. |
| Omnidex Grids | How to create Omnidex Grids to improve scalability and performance. |
| Rollup Tables | How to use Rollup Tables to pre-aggregate data for faster performance. |
| Expression-based Columns | How to create virtual columns and indexes that are based on SQL expressions. |
| Indexing Strategies |
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| Indexing Basics | An introduction to indexing a database with Omnidex. |
| Basic Indexing Strategies | Basic strategies for indexing an Omnidex database. |
| Advanced Indexing Strategies | Advanced strategies for indexing an Omnidex database. |
| Optimizing Queries |
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| Query Plans | How to use query plans to understand how a query is processed. |
| Monitoring Omnidex Performance | How to monitor the performance of Omnidex applications. |
| Configuring Omnidex | How to configure Omnidex to achieve the best performance. |
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