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ZDS Search for SourceSafe®

SourceSafe's 'Find in Files' search.

This opens and scans every file in the project tree you have indicated. For large SourceSafe databases which can easily contain 100,000 + documents totalling 20 + GB a full database search is just too slow.
You can cut response time by limiting the search to a part of the project tree, but you may then miss documents in other parts of the tree.

Find in files only checks text files, not binary file types like Word files.

Find In Files searches by string. It will find files containing the string 'copyright license' but not files containing 'copyright' and 'license' where these words are separated.

The results are displayed in a small dialog window. Reviewing more than a few files is difficult.

Searching the entire $/ project tree on a large database loads the Sourcesafe server and can impact response time to other users.

What ZDS Search offers.

ZDS search searches ALL the content in a SourceSafe database.

Response time even on large databases is in milliseconds.

ZDS Search indexes binary files, such as Word documents.

You can find documents containing any combination of keyword(s).

Results are presented as a list of links, all of which can be viewed.

You can click on any file link to open the Visual SourceSafe Client project and view the file.

The index is generated at night when users are not using the system.

An actual example of using ZDS Search
One of our clients has a SourceSafe database containing sql scripts and the source code for C++ programs that process the databases generated from the scripts.

Before releasing script changes to QA they use search to get a list of table and field names that have been changed.

They then click on the links to pull up the files from SourceSafe and check that every C++ program that uses the changed tables and fields has been fixed to handle the changes.

By getting this right BEFORE the release gets to QA, they save a lot of QA time finding out the hard way that the SQL databases and the C++ programs accessing them are not singing off the same song sheet.

How ZDS Search Works

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