Question

Is it possible to search a text field in an Oracle table for a set of word (ie, salary, bank, building, etc.) and have Oracle place the word or words it found in a pseudo column?

Answer 1

Depends on how sophisticated you want the search to be. For example:

• simple substring match

  SELECT text_column, 'salary' my_pseudo_column
  FROM mytable
  WHERE LOWER(text_column) LIKE '%salary%';
  

• Oracle TEXT query (assuming you’ve added the text index)

  SELECT text_column, 'salary' my_pseudo_column
  FROM mytable
  WHERE CONTAINS(text_column, 'salary') > 0;