Search “AND”, “OR”, “NOT” in the text of a document using OracleText

Question

OracleText has special meaning for these words. What if the text itself has them?

For example, d1.txt has "cats and dogs" and d2.txt has "cats". When searching for phrase "cats and dogs" i should get d1.txt only.

Answer 1

You can look up for literal words by surrounding them with curly braces:

WHERE CONTAINS(column, '{cats and dogs}') > 0

In the reference books those are in the sections:

• Special characters
• Query operators