Some of the things you mention sound a little fuzzy, vague.

I am asuming you are trying to index content. That's not exactly metadata, but.. sure. It *is* data about data.

My present way to go about doing what sounds like your task, is to actually break up the contents into a 'data' table, record page, line, and content. Essentially I record *everything*. I have about 30 million or so data rows. The database was at 3 gigs i think, last time i checked.

Sounds crazy? Well, it works. I can do searches just fine. Saving all content may be overkill for you.

At least if prevents me from making a judgement call about what is disposable data and what is not.

mysql> describe data;
+-------------+---------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| Field       | Type    | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+-------------+---------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| id          | int(10) |      | PRI | 0       |       |
| page_number | int(10) |      | PRI | 0       |       |
| line_number | int(10) |      | PRI | 0       |       |
| content     | text    |      | MUL |         |       |
+-------------+---------+------+-----+---------+-------+
4 rows in set (0.04 sec)

That's my little table. I'm sure it could be improved further.

In reply to Re: Creating Metadata from Text File by leocharre
in thread Creating Metadata from Text File by Trihedralguy

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