I need to create an "advanced search" which will allow the user to narrow down his results.
Ideally I'd want him/her to use the same search criteria form for each iteration, with a checkbox called "Search within results" type of thing.
Now what I was wondering if there was any existing literature on how to effectively do this. I have tried doing it just through SQL Statements but they are becoming very messy and large.
Is it possible to do this by searching the initial dataset, returning dataset #2 and then if a 3rd "search within results" is done apply the search against dataset #2 and return dataset #3 etc?
I am using Sql Server 2014 Express edition.I have a table with a varchar(max) column. I have created a full text search that use the stoplist "system". column has this struct: xxx.yyy.zzz.... where xxx, yyy, zzz... are numbers, like 123.345.123123.366456...I can have rows like that:
select * from Mytable where contains(MyColumn, '123.345.')
I gues the contains would return all the rows with column contains 123.345, but this does not return all the expected rows, only one row.I have tried to replace "." with "-" but the result is the same.I have also tried with '123.345.*. In this case I have got more results, but no all the exptected rows.If I use this query:
select * from MyTable where MyCOlumn like '123.345.%';
Hello! I am using this code to search the database but for some reason it's not liking the parameter I put there. Here is my code that works great with no parameters: protected void getBusinessInfo() { DataSet ds; ds = SqlHelper.ExecuteDataset(connection, "spBusinessInfoSearch"); gvSearch.DataSource = ds; gvSearch.DataBind(); } protected void btnSearch_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { getBusinessInfo(txtName.Text); } Here is what I put in the stored procedure: ALTER PROCEDURE dbo.spBusinessInfoSearch
ASSELECT * from vwUserprofileInfo where DisplayName like '%Eric%'
RETURN Now, when I used the same code with paramers nothing is returned. protected void getBusinessInfo(string param1) { DataSet ds; ds = SqlHelper.ExecuteDataset(connection, "spBusinessInfoSearch", new SqlParameter("@DisplayName", param1)); gvSearch.DataSource = ds; gvSearch.DataBind(); } protected void btnSearch_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { getBusinessInfo(txtName.Text); }
Can anyone suggest whey I dont get any results with this search?
SQL reads:
SELECT SupplierName, Location, ShortDescription FROM Query1 WHERE 'TimberSpecies' LIKE '%MMColParam%' AND 'CategoryTable' LIKE '%MMColParam2%' AND 'Location' LIKE '%MMColParam3%'
Dear all, I have illustared with code and sample output data my requestin thsi post. I simply was expecting some results from my search "amdsocket a 32 bit cache 512 dell" that includes a logical AND for all thewords in that search.Since i assume that any word might be an item_name, item_key oritem_value, i included all in the search.Can any one tell me why i get 0 results?The sample output of my data should look like this:item_id item_nameitem_keyitem_value--------------------------------------------------1Gefore MX 440Size64 MB1Gefore MX 440Architecture64 Bit1Gefore MX 440AGP8x1Gefore MX 440ChipsetNvidia1Gefore MX 440VendorAsus2AMD 3200+ClassSocket A2AMD 3200+Speed2 GHz2AMD 3200+Architecture32 Bit2AMD 3200+Level 2 Cache512 KB2AMD 3200+VendorAMD3Dell P780Geometry17 Inch3Dell P780Screen TypeFlat3Dell P780Frequency60 Hz3Dell P780VendorDellHere is my scenario:create table item_table (item_id int identity (1,1) not null primarykey, item_name varchar (50) not null)gocreate table details_table (item_id int not null, item_key varchar(50), item_value varchar (50))goalter table details_table add foreign key (item_id) referencesitem_tablegoinsert into item_table values ('Gefore MX 440')goinsert into item_table values ('AMD 3200+')goinsert into item_table values ('Dell P780')goinsert into details_table values (1,'Size', '64 MB')goinsert into details_table values (1,'Architecture', '64 Bit')goinsert into details_table values (1,'AGP', '8x')goinsert into details_table values (1,'Chipset', 'Nvidia')goinsert into details_table values (1,'Vendor', 'Asus')goinsert into details_table values (2,'Class', 'Socket A')goinsert into details_table values (2,'Speed', '2 GHz')goinsert into details_table values (2,'Architecture', '32 Bit')goinsert into details_table values (2,'Level 2 Cache', '512 KB')goinsert into details_table values (2,'Vendor', 'AMD')goinsert into details_table values (3,'Geometry', '17 Inch')goinsert into details_table values (3,'Screen Type', 'Flat')goinsert into details_table values (3,'Frequency', '60 Hz')goinsert into details_table values (3,'Vendor', 'Dell')gocreate view all_view asselect top 100 percent i.item_id, i.item_name, d.item_key, d.item_valuefrom item_table as i left outer join details_table as don i.item_id = d.item_idorder by i.item_id, i.item_name, d.item_key, d.item_valuego-- the complete search is "amd socket a 32 bit cache 512 dell"declare @search_key1 as varchar (50)declare @search_key2 as varchar (50)declare @search_key3 as varchar (50)declare @search_key4 as varchar (50)declare @search_key5 as varchar (50)declare @search_key6 as varchar (50)set @search_key1 = 'amd'set @search_key2 = 'socket a'set @search_key3 = '32 bit'set @search_key4 = 'cache'set @search_key5 = '512'set @search_key6 = 'dell'select distinct item_idfrom all_viewwhere((item_name like '%' + @search_key1 + '%') or (item_key like '%' +@search_key1 + '%') or (item_value like '%' + @search_key1 + '%'))and((item_name like '%' + @search_key2 + '%') or (item_key like '%' +@search_key2 + '%') or (item_value like '%' + @search_key2 + '%'))and((item_name like '%' + @search_key3 + '%') or (item_key like '%' +@search_key3 + '%') or (item_value like '%' + @search_key3 + '%'))and((item_name like '%' + @search_key4 + '%') or (item_key like '%' +@search_key4 + '%') or (item_value like '%' + @search_key4 + '%'))and((item_name like '%' + @search_key5 + '%') or (item_key like '%' +@search_key5 + '%') or (item_value like '%' + @search_key5 + '%'))and((item_name like '%' + @search_key6 + '%') or (item_key like '%' +@search_key6 + '%') or (item_value like '%' + @search_key6 + '%'))go----Best regards
I need some help with a query. I have a table with inventory that Ineed to allow customer searches on. Based on their search criteria, apreference level is calculated; the higher the preference level, thehigher on the order on the search results.The hard part is when the results are supposed to be limited to amaximum number of stores and items. Let's say that they only want tosee 3 stores and a max of 5 items per store. What needs to bereturned is the 3 stores with the best Preference and the 5 best itemsat each store.Create Table Inventory( StoreId int, ItemId int, Preference int )
Hi guys,As the title shows, i would like to learn how to return ranked results, and be able to order by relevance/rank. I am currently using SQL2000, though the final site may be going live with SQL2005. The data i am searching against is in tables, not Indexed files.I have no idea where to start......Does it have somthing to do with the amount of times the keywords appear? any help would be greatRegardsDarren
I'm busy writing a local site search engine that searches through a sql server database and I want to know how or what is the correct sql syntax to use in order to limit the amount of results a page loads at a time? The idea is obviously similar to something like google where you only see a certain amount of results first and then click at the botom for the next eg. 10 results.
The second question is how do I, after the first page with the first set of results that were shown, "clear" the second page of the previous html in order to show the next set of results? To give you an idea what my code looks like at the moment. Please don't kill me if the code is done a bit a lame, because I'm still learning.
resTextDescription2 = "myFile.txt does not exist!"; }
//determine whether male or female in order to display correct sign if ( resGender == "Male") resGender = "Male_sign_1.jpg"; else resGender = "Female_sign_1.jpg";
//determine whether 'want' and 'have' children and convert to correct words for display if ( resHaveChildren == "have kids" ) resHaveChildren = "Yes"; else resHaveChildren = "No";
//create a connection conClient = new SqlConnection( @"Server=THALIONTHALION;Integrated Security=SSPI;database=DateGame" );
//select statement strSelect = "Select userName From [client] Where userName=@username and userPassword=@userpassword"; cmdSelect = new SqlCommand( strSelect, conClient );
i know this is a bit of a shot in the dark but, does anybody know of a reasonably understandable way to rank XML node path results based on keyword search terms? seems like there are tons of uber-complex docs on the internet about this. i dont mind if it is a bit of a work-around, i am just looking for something that is reasonable non-complex that i can wrap my mind around. links etc apprecaited.
I am not aware of this if it exists in MS SQL server. But I need to return results in alphabetic order ignoring "The" if it's the first word of a title...
so for example title "The Cliffhanger" would be returned along with other titles that start with letter C, but "The" also must be returned as part of the title, but just ignored while alphabetizing.
I'm sure that I'm not the first one to ever need this and don't want to re-invent the wheel, so if you have any ideas as to the best way to accomplish this, help me out.
I want to break up a set of search results into small chunks. For instance, think about how Google displays a block of ten results out of the entire set. Selecting the top 10 is dead easy with "TOP 10"; how do I select the next 10?
Obviously one option would be to select the top 20, and programmatically discard the first 10, but surely there is a better way? I am doing this for a ASP.NET 2.0 application, and if I can retrieve just what I want, I can DataBind to a Repeater, and let ASP.NET do all the hard work of displaying the data.
Hi - I'm short of SQL experience and hacking my way through creating a simple search feature for a personal project. I would be very grateful if anyone could help me out with writing a stored procedure. Problem: I have two tables with three columns indexed for full-text search. So far I have been able to successfully execute the following query returning matching row ids: dbo.Search_Articles @searchText varchar(150) AS SELECT ArticleID FROM articles WHERE CONTAINS(Description, @searchText) OR CONTAINS(Title, @searchText) UNION SELECT ArticleID FROM article_pages WHERE CONTAINS(Text, @searchText); RETURN This returns the ArticleID for any articles or article_pages records where there is a text match. I ultimately need the stored procedure to return all columns from the articles table for matches and not just the StoryID. Seems like maybe I should try using some kind of JOIN on the result of the UNION above and the articles table? But I have so far been unable to figure out how to do this as I can't seem to declare a name for the result table of the UNION above. Perhaps there is another more eloquent solution? Thanks! Peter
Our clients want to be able to do full text search with a single letter. (Is the name Newton, Nathan, Nick?, Is the ID N1, N2...). Doing a single character full text search on a table work 25 out of 26 times. The letter that doesn't work is 'n'. the WHERE clause CONTAINS(full_text_field, ' "n*" ') returns all rows, even rows that have no 'n' in them anywhere. Adding a second letter after the "n" works as expected.
Here is an example
create table TestFullTextSearch ( Id int not null, AllText nvarchar(400) ) create unique index test_tfts on TestFullTextSearch(Id); create fulltext catalog ftcat_tfts;
I have a scenario of where the standard Full-Text search identifies keywords but Semantic Search does not recognize them as keywords. I'm hoping to understand why Semantic Search might not recognize them. The context this is being used in medical terminology and the specific key words I noticed missing right off the bat were medications.
For instance, if I put the following string into a FT indexed table
'J9355 - Trastuzumab (Herceptin)' AND 'J9355 - Trastuzumab emtansine'
The Semantic Search recognized 'Herceptin' and 'Emtansine' but not 'Trastuzumab'
Nor in
'J8999 - Everolimus (Afinitor)'
It did not recognize 'Afinitor' as a keyword.
In all cases the Base of Full-Text did find those keywords and were identifiable using the dmvsys.dm_fts_index_keywords_by_document.It does show the index as having completed.
why certain words might not be picked up while others would be? Could it be a language/dictionary issue? I am using English and accent insensitive settings?
would you use sql server "full text search" feature as your site index? from some reason i can't make index server my site search catalog, and i wonder if the full text is the solution. i think that i wll have to you create new table called some thing like "site text" and i will need to write every text twice- one the the table (let's say "articles table") and one to the text. other wise- there is problems finding the right urlof the text, searching different tables with different columns name and so on... so i thought create site search table, with the columns: id, text, url and to write every thing to this table. but some how ot look the wrong way, that every forum post, every article, album picture or joke will insert twice to the sqr server... what do you think?
I have installed the Adobe iFilter 11 64 bit and set the path to the bin folder. I still cannot find any text from the pdf files. I suspect I am missing something trivial because I don't find much when I Bing for this so it must not be a common problem.Here is the code.
--Adobe iFilter 11 64 bit is installed --The Path variable is set to the bin folder for the Adobe iFilter. --SQL Developer version 64 bit on both Windows 7 and Windows 8. USE master; GO DROP DATABASE FileTableStudy; GO CREATE DATABASE FileTableStudy ON PRIMARY
I have a table that contains words that will be used to search another table where FullText index has been created on searchable columns. I'm basically trying to run something like this:
SELECT t1.col1, t2.col3 FROM tbl1 t1, tbl2 t2 WHERE CONTAINS (t1.col1, t2.col1)
I know this won't work but is there a way to join these two tables so the words (t2.col1) can be passed as search conditions? There is no common key on both tables so normal join won't work. I'm trying to find a way to pass the search words from one table to another.
I have Sql server 2005 SP2. I enabled it for Full Text search. Substring search where i enter *word* doesn't return any row. I have a table testtable where description has word Extinguisher.
If i run a query with *ting* it doesn't return any row. select * from testtable where contains(description,'"*xting*"') ;
But it works if i do select * from testtable where contains(description,'"Exting*"') ;
The Full text search document says it supports substring search. Is it an issue with sql server 2005?Please help.
Say I want to search for a range of account numbers but only which are active. After I set my field for A (active) this field shows in my results, I dont want it to.
In Access you can easily just uncheck that field in design view, but how do I do it in sql?
In sql server 2000 - our QA pointed out that his testing for empty strings returned 200 + rows but that when he clicked in the field there were obviously a space there. This issue came up because of the script I created to replace and earlier one that queried on empty strings instead of datalength and the earlier script always reported that it had updated x number of rows regardless of how many times it was run on the same database.
QA query based on the earlier script: Select * from StringTable WHERE (LongString = '' OR LongString IS NULL)
My script: The fields are nvarchars in the newer database but older version of the database had varchars. I had created a script to replace empty strings as follows:
-- if LongString column is varchar - run varchar update else nvarchar update If exists (Select * from sysobjects o inner join syscolumns c on c.id = o.id where c.name = 'LongString' and o.name = 'StringTable' and c.xtype = 167) begin
-- update varchar LongString UPDATE StringTable SET LongString = char(32) -- Select * from StringTable WHERE ((DATALENGTH(LongString ) < 1) OR LongString IS NULL)
END Else Begin
-- update nvarchar LongString UPDATE StringTable SET LongString = char(32) -- Select * from StringTable WHERE ((DATALENGTH(LongString ) < 2) OR LongString IS NULL)
END
If exists (Select * from sysobjects o inner join syscolumns c on c.id = o.id where c.name = 'ShortString' and o.name = 'StringTable' and c.xtype = 167) begin
UPDATE StringTable SET ShortString= char(32) -- Select * from StringTable WHERE ((DATALENGTH(ShortString) < 1) OR ShortString IS NULL)
END Else Begin
-- update nvarchar ShortString UPDATE StringTable SET ShortString= char(32) -- Select * from StringTable WHERE ((DATALENGTH(ShortString) < 2) OR ShortString IS NULL)
END
My method for checking for datalength appears to work correctly why doesn't the QA script? I thought it might have to do with the nvarchar used in the table but I changed the column to a varchar and still has the same issue.
My full-text search isn't working at all! I have a temporary table with full-text indexing enabled where files are scanned for social security numbers. If it has one, the user will see a message that it believes it's found a SSN and won't upload it. There is only ever one row in this table, as we overwrite the contents upon each upload.
I'm testing this search, and it doesn't work. The table has the following columns: attachemtId (int) - primary key fileContent (image) - contents of the file fileExtension (varchar) - extension of the file (this is always either ".pdf" or ".doc")
I created a .doc file that simply says "ssn", and then run the following query:
SELECT * FROM TempAttachment WHERE CONTAINS(fileContent,'ssn')
and nothing is returned! I tried the same thing with a .pdf file, and same results.
I'm not sure if this is related, but earlier I had this issue where I had to reset permissions for the directory. I've tried removing the full-text index and adding it again, but that didn't do anything. I also checked error logs on the server, and there were no messages. Any help would be appreciated! Thank you!
Hi, I was wondering if any SQL Server gurus out there could help me...I have a table which contains text resources for my application. The text resources are multi-lingual so I've read that if I add a html language indicator meta tag e.g.<META NAME="MS.LOCALE" CONTENT="ES">and store the text in a varbinary column with a supporting Document Type column containing ".html" of varchar(5) then the full text index service should be intelligent about the language word breakers it applies when indexing the text. (I hope this is correct technique for best multi-lingual support in a single table?)However, when I come to query this data the results always return 0 rows (no errors are encountered). e.g.DECLARE @SearchWord nvarchar(256)SET @SearchWord = 'search' -- Yes, this word is definitely present in my resources.SELECT * FROM Resource WHERE CONTAINS(Document, @SearchWord)I'm a little puzzled as Full Text search is working fine on another table that employs an nvarchar column.Any pointers / suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Cheers,Gavin.
I'd like to get some ideas for the following: I am writing a quick mini-application that searches for records in a database, which is easy enough. However, if the search term comes up empty, I need to return 10 records before the positon the search term would be in if it existed, and 10 records after. (Obviously the results are ordered on the search term column) So for example, if I am searching on "Microsoft", and it doesn't exist in my table, I need to return the 10 records that come before Microsoft alphabetically, and then the 10 that come after it. I have a SP that does this, but it is pretty messy and I'd like to see if anyone else had some ideas that might be better. Thanks!
Hi, Could you tell me if this is possible? How do I return results using an entire column as part of the search parameter? I need to do this in the sql rather than selecting the contents and iterating through it as it would take too long.
eg. CREATE TABLE [dbo].[tPopupKeywords]( [id] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT FOR REPLICATION NOT NULL, [title] [nvarchar](255) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NOT NULL, [description] [nvarchar](2000) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NOT NULL ) ON [PRIMARY]
INSERT INTO dbo.tPopupKeywords(title, description) SELECT 'check', 'desc' UNION ALL SELECT 'for', 'desc' UNION ALL SELECT 'keywords', 'desc'
select dbo.tpopupkeywords.title where 'This is an example of a passed in string to check if any keywords are returned.' LIKE '% ' + dbo.tpopupkeywords.title + ' %' --Does this bit need to do a select??
I have created a table(T1) from select query result, that Select query is parameterised. Now I need to update the select query table(T1) based on the result every time.
Below is my Query:
ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[RPT_Cost_copy] SELECT MEII.*, SIMM.U_SP2DC, UPPER(SIMM.U_C3C2) AS GRP3,sb.cost, PREV.Z1, PREV.Z3, SB.Z2, SB.Z4,SIMM.U_C3DC1 AS FAM INTO T1 FROM (SELECT a.meu, a.mep2, SUM(a.mest) as excst FROM mei as A WHERE a.myar=@yr and a.mprd=@mth AND LTRIM(A.MCU) <> '' AND LTRIM(A.MRP2) <> ''
Hi, I was wondering if any SQL Server gurus out there could help me...
I have a table which contains text resources for my application. The text resources are multi-lingual so I've read that if I add a html language indicator meta tag e.g. <META NAME="MS.LOCALE" CONTENT="ES"> and store the text in a varbinary column with a supporting Document Type column containing ".html" of varchar(5) then the full text index service should be intelligent about the language word breakers it applies when indexing the text. (I hope this is correct technique for best multi-lingual support in a single table?)
However, when I come to query this data the results always return 0 rows (no errors are encountered). e.g. DECLARE @SearchWord nvarchar(256) SET @SearchWord = 'search' -- Yes, this word is definitely present in my resources. SELECT * FROM Resource WHERE CONTAINS(Document, @SearchWord)
I'm a little puzzled as Full Text search is working fine on another table that employs an nvarchar column.
Any pointers / suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Gavin.
Can anyone tell me how to search an SQL database for a given key word in a textbox? I basically have a database that has a qualifications column and this column needs to be searched for the data given in the textbox. Which is the best method to search for the data? Is it a simple SQL query or an XML based search engine type? Can anyone give any suggestions regarding this? If XML is efficient then how do I use it to query my database, as I'm pretty new in XML based searching.Thanks
hi there, i am doing a school project and i need to have this search engine that will search the data that i have stored inside the database and display the results out can anyone help? thanks
