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Using the Verity merge utility

The merge utility lets you combine multiple collections with identical schemas. This is useful for merging smaller collections built from different sources into one, large collection. Also, you can use the merge utility to break up the collection into smaller collections of a roughly uniform size.

Note: The Verity merge utility is available only in Windows.

Collections can be merged only if they have identical schemas. Collections can be merged if they have exactly the same set of style files (and style file entries).

Breaking up a large collection helps to optimize search performance, because it allows many applications to perform multiple concurrent search requests over the different collections. After breaking up a large collection, you can also discard older collections to reclaim limited disk storage space.

The merge executable, which starts the merge application, is located in the cf_root\lib\_nti40\bin directory.

In the above location, cf_root refers to the ColdFusion MX root directory.

For example:

c:\cfusionmx\lib\_nti40\bin\merge /common = c:\cfusionmx\lib\common

To obtain help for the merge utility, enter the following command:

merge -help

Note: After running the merge utility, you must optimize the collection, using the mkvdk -optimize option.


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robstacey said on Mar 11, 2004 at 11:57 AM :

If I use the Verity merge utility in order to merge multiple collections, can I still use those smaller collections in other indexing tasks? i.e. Will I then have one large collection in addtion to my smaller collections?

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