Chapter 13. Full-text searching
Robert C. Cain
Search is everywhere. In addition to the powerful search engines available to us, it seems like every website we visit has a search box for searching within that site. Wouldn’t it be great to incorporate search within your applications? Fortunately, SQL Server provides a powerful text search engine that’s as easy to use as one-two-three!
Foundations of full-text searching
Before we begin the step-by-step process of creating and using full-text indexes, there are a few fundamentals that you’ll need to understand. Full-text search isn’t a fancy way of doing a LIKE search with SQL. Instead, every word is placed into a special type of index called a full-text index. These indexes are organized and ...
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