Omnidex Upgrading from Previous Releases
Reasons to Upgrade from 4.x to 5.x
There are several good reasons to upgrade from an Omnidex version 4.x installation to a 5.x installation.
Faster Omnidex Index build times due to the merging of MDK and ASK indexes.
Easier to maintain Omnidex Grid Environments with Grid aware Explain Plans
Easier Omnidex Environment setup and maintenance using the Omnidex Data Defintion Language and OdxSQL.
Improvements in the Sample and Random selection of records.
Automatically de-dup records on selection.
Cached Qualifications to improved the speed of drill down counts.
PowerSearch for synonyms, miss-spellings, transpositions, plurality, etc.
Autocomplete suggestions of words as they are being typed.
Reasons to stay on 4.x
Upgrading from previous Omnidex versions
The best way to currently review all the upgrade notes is to start at the older releases and read through to the newer releases. Even if you are already on 5.0, you should review the upgrade notes on going from 4.x to 5.0 to see all the changes to the Omnidex product.
Upgrading Versions 4.x to 5.0
Upgrading Versions 5.0 to 5.1
Correct Steps to convert existing oacomp Environment to DDL based XML Environment
os> odxsql current.env
odxsql> extract DDL to myddl.sql
odxsql> use myddl.sql
odxsql> connect myddl.xml
odxsql> update indexes
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