Although the product is mature and an excellent offering (overall), indexing or re-indexing a large Concordance database (or series of databases) can be a time consuming task. The efficiency can be impacted by several factors, including the number of records and size of the database, speed and resources available on the computer, the usage of native files or tiff images with corresponding OCR text, as well as the version of Concordance that you’re operating. This obviously also doesn’t take into consideration network traffic, hard drive speed or the location of the data itself. The potential factors aside, there are 3 specific ways you can improve the speed and efficiency of the index and re-index process. These points will not be rocket science for experienced DBA’s or Administrators, and might even seem obvious to some, but will hopefully serve as a reference point for improving the important task of keeping a healthy and spry database. Read the rest of this entry »

LexisNexis’ Concordance features a host of great tools and abilities. One of the least well known is the option to automatically launch an application after you have closed an instance of Concordance. This feature can be especially helpful and practical. In this quick tip, we will cover the application launch feature within Concordance’s preferences and discuss why this could be beneficial in a variety of work environments. Read the rest of this entry »