Searching Documents
You’ve seen how FILESTREAM and FileTable allow unstructured documents to be stored as first-class citizens inside the database with unprecedented ease and performance. So it’s only natural to begin wondering how to make better use of unstructured content that lives in the database, beyond merely streaming it to client applications. This is where Full-Text Search (FTS) and the new Statistical Semantic Search in SQL Server 2012 come in.
The FTS engine was first introduced as an add-on component to SQL Server 2000, and it provides much more powerful wildcard search capabilities than the T-SQL LIKE operator. FTS has steadily matured with each product release, and is now a fully integrated part of the relational database engine. ...
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