How to enable and perform a "full text" search on a table in SQL Server 2005?
I did not quite understand the solution in: How do I use full text search across multiple tables, SQL Server 2005
How hard is it to incorporate full text search with SQL Server?
I think that this video tutorial, should get you a good part of the way there.
you have to setup the index before you can search against it.
You can also have a look at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms142583.aspx
Begin to Set Up SQL Server 2005 Full-Text Searching.
Then do an overview about the functions you can use:
http://forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/1/4/Performing-SQL-Server-CONTAINS-Searches
http://forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/1/4/Performing-SQL-Server-FREETEXT-Searches
http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/1/5/Ranking-SQL-Server-2005-FullText-Search-Results
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I was given a task to write very specific queries from a microsoft sql server database that has over 250 tables and over 250 views. I am using sql server management studios and I am trying to figure out where a field location might exist in a table.
Are there ways to do a quick search of every table or the entire database for certain keywords to help narrow down my searches?
Or must I open every single table/view and try to see every single column in order to solve this issue?
Any help or advice with this would be greatly appreciated.
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The following query is written using SQL Server 2014 CONTAINS function.
SELECT
Org1.OrganizationPK
,*
FROM Organization Org1
WHERE Org1.Deleted = 0
AND CONTAINS (Org1.NAME,'"chris6*"')
AND org1.OrgDomainInd = 1
But, the above query is NOT working.
I have followed this article to understand more about CONTAINS function. I have verified those examples as-they-are. Even here also, I am not getting any results.
I have verified this post from stackoverflow, but I could not apply for my requirement.
Hence, I am getting doubt whether I need to do anything more to configure SQL Server 2014 to work with CONTAINS fuction? Please let me know if there is anything I need to do to make SQL Server 2014 ready to use CONTAINS function.
If there is nothing like that, please suggest me the solution.
Please don't suggest me to use LIKE operator. I am telling this why because, most of my colleagues suggested me same; hence, as a precautionary matter I am writing this statement here.
I am running behind my schedule to complete this task.
Before CONTAINS will work against a column you need setup full text index. This is actually a different engine which runs as a separate service in SQL Server, so make sure it is installed an running.
Once you're sure the component is installed (it may already be installed) You need to do the following:
Create a Full-Text Catalogue
Create a Full-Text Index (you can have multiple of these in the same catalogue) against the tables/columns you want to be able to use full-text keywords
Run a Population which will crawl the index created & populate the catalogue (these are seperate files which SQL Server needs to maintain in addition to mdf/ldf )
There's an ok tutorial on how to do this by using SSMS in SQL Server 2008 by Pinal Dave on CodeProject. SQL Server 2014 should be very similar.
You can also perform these steps with TSQL:
CREATE FULLTEXT CATALOG
CREATE FULLTEXT INDEX
ALTER FULLTEXT INDEX
I believe that contains functionality can only be used in tables configured to use/support Full Text Search -- an elderly feature of SQL Server that I have little experience with. If you are not using Full Text Search, I'm pretty sure contains will not work.
Is it possible to enable fulltext search using query in sql server 2008 R2?
I have setup database in Amzon RDS. There is no support to enable fulltext.
Please let me know if there is any way to enable fulltext using query.
Thanks in advance!
I believe that in 2008 and above, full text indexing is enabled by default and cannot be disabled.
With that said, I've not used RDS before but you could try the old SQL 2000 syntax below
USE [database];
GO
EXEC sp_fulltext_database 'enable';
GO
Regardless, the full text service has to be running. If it is not, then you will not be able to run full text indexes at all.
I have a table named as tblJobs on which i want to implement Full Text Search.
There is a column named as jobdescription on which search is to be implemented.
I m using SQL Server 2008 (RTM)..,but still my option of full-text Index is disabled. I did lots of thing, follow every steps from various websites.., but nothing seems to be helpfull. Can anyone pls help me to get out of this prolem.
Thanks in advance..!
i want to write a query with Full-Text-Search on a column with varbinary(max) type that stored a .doc/.docx(MS-Word) file.
my query must returns records that contain a word in stored file.
is this possible?
if yes,how?(please write an example)
if yes,can we write that for other language(e.g Arabic,Persian or a UniCode characters)?
thank you beforehand.
What you're looking for is fulltext indexing, which has been greatly improved in SQL Server 2008.
For an introduction, I would recommend checking out these articles here:
SQL Server 2008 - Creating Full Text Catalog and Search
Understanding Full-Text Indexing in SQL Server
Fulltext-Indexing Workbench
Once you understand this and have created your own fulltext catalog, you should be able to search something like this:
SELECT ID, (other fields), DocumentColumn
FROM dbo.YourTable
WHERE CONTAINS(*, 'Microsoft Word')
And yes, Fulltext indexing and searching does support lots of languages - check out the links I've sent you and the SQL Server 2008 Books Online for details!
Marc
If you have SQL Server 2005 or later, yes, you just need the filters:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=60C92A37-719C-4077-B5C6-CAC34F4227CC&displaylang=en
If you have SQL Server 2000, doc files can be indexed, but not the newer Office 2007 format as far as I know (I've heard you may be able to borrow the IFilter by installing Word 2007 on the server).