full-text queries with express edition

Hi,
I understand that full-text indexing is not available in the express
edition.
My situation is that we have to write an application to take advantage of
full-text-indexing when available.
Quesitions are.
1. Does "freetext" and "contains" queries works on express edition?
(by doing a full table scan or something like that)
2. If it does not, how do I write the c# that recognize the capability,
so that c# code can send/execute different queries based on
"full-text-capability" of sql-server.
any direction is deeply appreciated.
Thanks
Nalaka
1) It currently does not work on SQL FTS.
2) I believe the February issue of SQL Server pro has an article on how to
get this working using pure tsql.
Hilary Cotter
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"Nalaka" <nalaka12@.nospam.nospam> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I understand that full-text indexing is not available in the express
> edition.
> My situation is that we have to write an application to take advantage of
> full-text-indexing when available.
> Quesitions are.
> 1. Does "freetext" and "contains" queries works on express edition?
> (by doing a full table scan or something like that)
> 2. If it does not, how do I write the c# that recognize the capability,
> so that c# code can send/execute different queries based on
> "full-text-capability" of sql-server.
> any direction is deeply appreciated.
> Thanks
> Nalaka
>
|||Nalaka wrote on Mon, 13 Feb 2006 11:19:10 -0800:

> Hi,
> I understand that full-text indexing is not available in the express
> edition.
> My situation is that we have to write an application to take advantage of
> full-text-indexing when available.
> Quesitions are.
> 1. Does "freetext" and "contains" queries works on express edition?
> (by doing a full table scan or something like that)
> 2. If it does not, how do I write the c# that recognize the capability,
> so that c# code can send/execute different queries based on
> "full-text-capability" of sql-server.
> any direction is deeply appreciated.
In my code I first do the following:
select FULLTEXTCATALOGPROPERTY('STKcatalog', 'ItemCount'),
FULLTEXTCATALOGPROPERTY('STKcatalog', 'PopulateStatus')
If NULLs returned, FTS is not available for the named catalog (in my case
STKcatalog). I also use these values to double check whether the index is
being rebuilt, and to make sure that the ItemCount value is close to my
table row count. This way if there is not FTS catalog, or it's being
populated, I can switch my query to use LIKE rather than CONTAINS.
Dan