NUMBEROFMATCHES

The NUMBEROFMATCHES scalar function searches in text documents and returns an INTEGER value indicating how many matches resulted per document.

Function syntax

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Function parameters

column name
The name of a column. The column must have an associated text index. You can create text indexes by using the administration command DB2TEXT CREATE INDEX.
search-argument
A string of type VARCHAR containing the terms to be searched. See Syntax of search arguments.
Note

You cannot use the NUMBEROFMATCHES query on a text index created on a view.