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 Field of type integer as,…

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Lucene and me at ApacheCon EU in Amsterdam March 23-27.

I’ve posted a Lucene related event schedule on my blog for people who are interested.  Of particular note are the two days of pre-conference training on both Lucene and Solr.  These are shorter ApacheCon versions of our 3 day training classes.  Obviously, we can’t cover all the material that we do in our full courses, but they are a means…

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