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Lucene in Action, Second Edition, completely revises and updates the best-selling first edition and remains the authoritative book on Lucene. This book shows you how to index your documents, including…

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I was recently with a client doing a Best Practices assesment when I came across a common source of confusion related to sorting, faceting and schema design.

As background, Solr provides a schema that describes the Fields and Field Types (FT) that are used by an application.  Field Types describe how Solr should handle the information contained in a Field.  For instance, the integer FT tells Solr to treat the contents of any…

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