Database Query Search Time

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Hey There,

Many somebody will know these answers to these questions:

1. When I am indexing a collection of data for SOLR, for the product price field, should I input price ranges instead of the actual product price? For example, if a product costs 393.54, the product price could be [100_400][100_500][100_600][200_400][200_500] etc. Then when I use a product search I could look for the range within that list of strings. The problem I see with this is there are so many different combinations of price ranges that the collection may get bloated?

2. Look at this solr query string:

http://localhost:8983/solr/sitecontent2/select/?q=custom1:700%20TO%201500&version=2.2&start=0&rows=10&indent=on

If I have a product priced 1499, why is that product not returned in the results?
http://www.green-watch.org/test2.cfm?index=yes (thats whats in this index)

Thanks for any suggestions.

Sincerely,
Travis Walters