hi everyone,
i have several hundred books that were typed using unicode and would
liek to put them into a database so that i can perform searches on
them. how does one design a database for this?
i was planning to make a table with these columns: ID, Title, Authors,
Publishers, Content
the Content column will contain the entire book in unicode; then, to
find out which books contain the string "blah" i'd just do somethig
like select * from table where content contains "blah"
my problem is: (1) i have never done database work before (2) i do not
have any experience in anything like this
my objectives: (1) allow users to make query through the web (i guess
i will do this via PHP interacting with the postgresql)
my questions are: (1) is it reasonable to put the bookcontent into the
CONTENT column? (2) the content of the book can be very long (some of
them have nearly 1 milloin words), so, what kind of considerations
should i be making? (3) how should i design something like this? there
must be someone outthere that has done somethign similar to this.. if
so, please share your experiences.
note: these texts are not copyrighted.. so i do not have to worry
about the legal problems.
tia
