Hi Fabio, Like Jack says, try the tutorial. But to answer your question, SOLR isn't a bolt on to SQLServer or any other DB. It's a fantastically fast indexing/searching tool. You'll need to use the DataImportHandler (see the tutorial) to import your data from the DB into the indices that SOLR uses. Once in there, you'll have more power & flexibility than SQLServer would ever give you!
Haven't tried SOLR on Windows (I guess your environment) but I'm sure it'll work using Jetty or Tomcat as web container. Stick with it. The ride can be bumpy but the experience is sensational! DQ -----Original Message----- From: fabio1605 [mailto:fabio.to...@btinternet.com] Sent: 02 July 2013 16:16 To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Newbie SolR - Need advice Hi we have a MSSQL Server which is just getting far to large now and performance is dying! the majority of our webservers mainly are doing search function so i thought it may be best to move to SolR But i know very little about it! My questions are! Does SolR Run as a bolt on to MSSQL - as in the data is still in MSSQL and SolR is just the search bit between? Im really struggling to understand the point of SOLR etc so if someone could point me to a Dummies website id apprecaite it! google is throwing to much confusion at me! -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Newbie-SolR-Need-advice-tp4074746.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
