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Making Queries

The text search engine allows queries to be formed from arbitrary Boolean expressions containing the keywords AND, OR, and NOT, and grouped with parentheses. For example:

Avondale firestation

finds documents containing 'Avondale' or 'firestation'

Avondale or firestation

same as above

Avondale and firestation

finds documents containing both 'Avondale' and 'firestation'

Avondale not firestation

finds documents containing 'Avondale' but not 'firestation'

(Avondale not firestation) and EMS

finds documents containing 'EMS', plus 'Avondale' but not 'firestation'

web*

finds documents containing words starting with 'web'

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