Like-Operator: How To Search On %,_ Characters
Apr 20, 2001Hello,
a database field of type varchar contains among others % and _ characters.
When we do a SELECT how can be search on % characters in the LIKE operator.
Ricardo
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Problems With Full Text Search With Wildcard And CONTAINS Operator, Help Please
Nov 26, 2007
Hi there,
I am trying to get the do a full text search using the CONTAINS operator and the asterisk wildcard prefix and apparently it is returning inconsistent results. I have a full-text enabled table named Content which contains an AutoId field with a clustering index built on it, a column named ContTitle which is fulltext indexed and a couple of other columns. The fulltext catalog has been fully populated.
When I perform this sample query:
SELECT AutoId, ContTitle FROM [Content] WHERE CONTAINS(ContTitle, ' "Live Band From Colombia" '),
it returns me a row, however when i change the sample query to include the asterisk wildcard behind the search phrase:
SELECT AutoId, ContTitle FROM [Content] WHERE CONTAINS(ContTitle, ' "Live Band From Colombia*" '),
it returns no rows.
I tried the to change the search phrase to "Excellence Service Award", for e.g.
SELECT AutoId, ContTitle FROM [Content] WHERE CONTAINS(ContTitle, ' "Excellence Service Award" '),
and
SELECT AutoId, ContTitle FROM [Content] WHERE CONTAINS(ContTitle, ' "Excellence Service Award*" '),
both queries will return rows with the content title Excellence Service Award
Does anyone know if I'm missing out on any anything, like the full text indexed is not populated correctly for e.g? It's just weird that the same kind of search will work on some rows and not for the rest. Thank you very much.
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Mar 6, 2001Hi !
I have an DB in SQL Server 7, and in Portuguese we have special characters like "á","õ",etc. And I want to let the visitor to a site to do a search (written in ASP), and not to need to write the correct way (without the accents). But either he writes or not in the correct way, the results are the same, not necessarly in the same order. Is there a SQL Server mechanism that permits this functionality, without doing a very complicated SELECT (takes a lot of time) or replicating a field in the DB (takes a lot of extra space)...
Thanks !
Filipe Lopes, Lisbon, Portugal.
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