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How to search an entire MS SQL 2005 DB for a value?

How can I search an entire MS SQL 2005 DB for a value? For example 'ABC12345'. Thanks.
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Sphinx "searchd" can not start

Actually i am trying to start my Kaltura service. The default "sphinx" came along together with Kaltura has crushed and then got uninstalled. Then i installed clean dedicated of "Sphinx" (source version from here) outside of Kaltura. I setup at…
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Windows Search not searching in files

I am trying to get Windows Search to work on my Windows Server 2008 SP2 fileserver, so I can search in files for content. I have added the Windows Search Service role to the server, and using the right-click properties in Explorer set some folders…
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Searching two sites at once using Google?

How can I limit a Google search to two sites at once? I can search Serverfault by doing site:serverfault.com windows xp, but I can't seem to figure out how to include another site in my search. Thanks!
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Searching a number of files for a string in LInux

How do I search files, some of which might be directories (in this case recursively) for a given string? I'd like to search source files for a class definition, so it would also be great if there was the name of the containing file before each…
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How to secure an Internet-facing Elastic Search implementation in a shared hosting environment?

(Originally asked on StackOverflow, and recommended that I move it here) I've been going over the documentation for Elastic Search and I'm a big fan and I'd like to use it to handle the search for my ASP.NET MVC app. That introduces a few…
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What is needed to allow searching of file contents on remote 2012 R2 share

We have a remote desktop farm built on 2012 R2. Due to our users having to run Outlook in cached mode, we have not installed the windows search service on these session hosts as it breaks the Outlook search without additional configuration. The…
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Google Mini Seems to Miss Some Documents

I have a site with dynamic pages on them (e.g. record.aspx?id=657). These get added to occasionally. Each of these pages can be found by following various tags, and there's a page (ip restricted so only the google mini can see it) that list all the…
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Local full text index for a directory tree, a quicker alternative for grep -R

I have a large directory tree of source files. I want to search around all these files. My first instinct is to use grep -R or ack, but either way they just sequentially read all the files. Is there some lightweight programme that I can install that…
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More Searchfilters in AuthLDAPURL

Is it posible to have more then one searchfilter in AuthLDAPURL? Example uid filter: AuthType Basic AuthName "Test" AuthBasicProvider ldap AuthUserFile /dev/null AuthLDAPURL…
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What's a good way to provide a searchable interface to Mailman mailing list archives?

If you have a collection of mailing list archives from Mailman (example here) is there a good way to make them searchable from a web-based interface?
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Is there a way to grep with a constrained file type?

right now i am using something like this: find . -name "*.xml" | xargs grep -l "foobar" it works, but i was wondering if grep has this functionality built in?
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Good tool for searching E-Mail in Outlook?

As a System Administrator, I tend to accumulate a lot of E-Mail. And, unfortunately, my current employer requires Windows on the desktop and Outlook for e-mail. My question is, are there any good tools for indexing/searching Outlook E-Mail? …
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Simple easy to use CLI file index search on unix?

I need a simple unix utility that would allow me to search within files quickly and with basic parameters (this folder, not this kind of files...). Currently I use a hand crafted find function with grep and many parameters. It's fast enought on…
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how to disable indexing service (permanently!), on Windows 2003 R2

We have a Windows 2003 R2 server, and its c: drive keeps filling up. When I look for what's taking the space, I see an almost-2GB EDB file: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application…
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