Fulltext search miss records in select

Running
SELECT productid,productname from productsFullText
where
freetext (*, 'x2000')
or
SELECT productid,productname from productsFullText
where
contains (*, 'x2000')
gives 1 hit.
SELECT productid,productname from productsFullText
where
productname like '%x2000%'
gives 7 hits.
I use the english wordbreaker and the FullIndex is populated with all
ItemCount.
Whats wrong in my setup
--
Regards
Henrik JuelHi, Henrik,
Per my understanding, you got less records from a full-text query than a
regular SQL query with LIKE statement.
If I have misunderstood, please let me know.
For further research, I would like to know:
1. What is your SQL Server version?
2. Has the latest service pack been installed?
If the latest service pack has not been installed on your computer, please
install it first.
If the issue perists, please try rebuilding your full text catalog. You may
refer to:
ALTER FULLTEXT CATALOG (Transact-SQL)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms176095.aspx
Also, I recommend that you check if there are some error informaion in SQL
error logs and Event logs.
Please feel free to let me know if you have any other questions or concerns.
Sincerely yours,
Charles Wang
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I found the answer.
The fulltext seachs command FREETEXT will only hit on full words and LIKE %%
can also find a searchtext that is in a word. Thats why I always will get
more hits using the LIKE when performing a search on one searchtext.
rgs Henrik
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Full-Text Search -- What Thesaurus does it use?

can't find a full-text search forum .. decided to post it here...

Here's what I find in documentation on FREETEXT

Generates inflectional forms of the words (stemming).
Identifies a list of expansions or replacements for the terms based on matches in the thesaurus.

Question: which thesaurus does it use? Because it definitely doesn't pick up on synonyms from the Office thesaurus..

nevermind... found the expansion/ignore files in
\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\FTDATA\

Fulltext Search

Dear Aall,
How can we search for all the key words? Is it possible to write a single
query with Freetext or Contains?
Example: if I search for 'Microsoft has released a new Operating System' I
should get the result which contains all the Key words in the phrase we
search.
Here in this example I should get the result set which contains all the key
words 'Microsoft', 'Released', 'Operating', 'System' in any order by
ignoring the noise words automatically.
Please give us your valid suggetions on this regards..
Thanks in advance
SathianHi Sathian,
Try:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Dat...members/jtkane/
"Sathian" <sathian.t@.in.bosch.com> wrote in message
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> Dear Aall,
> How can we search for all the key words? Is it possible to write a single
> query with Freetext or Contains?
> Example: if I search for 'Microsoft has released a new Operating System'
> I
> should get the result which contains all the Key words in the phrase we
> search.
> Here in this example I should get the result set which contains all the
> key
> words 'Microsoft', 'Released', 'Operating', 'System' in any order by
> ignoring the noise words automatically.
> Please give us your valid suggetions on this regards..
>
> Thanks in advance
> Sathian
>

Fulltext Search

Dear Aall,
How can we search for all the key words? Is it possible to write a single
query with Freetext or Contains?
Example: if I search for 'Microsoft has released a new Operating System' I
should get the result which contains all the Key words in the phrase we
search.
Here in this example I should get the result set which contains all the key
words 'Microsoft', 'Released', 'Operating', 'System' in any order by
ignoring the noise words automatically.
Please give us your valid suggetions on this regards..
Thanks in advance
Sathian
Hi Sathian,
Try:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Data..._20705253.html
The code may not be perfect, but with a bit of modification, you should be
able to get it to work for you to search for all the key words.
Regards,
John
SQL Full Text Search Blog
http://spaces.msn.com/members/jtkane/
"Sathian" <sathian.t@.in.bosch.com> wrote in message
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> Dear Aall,
> How can we search for all the key words? Is it possible to write a single
> query with Freetext or Contains?
> Example: if I search for 'Microsoft has released a new Operating System'
> I
> should get the result which contains all the Key words in the phrase we
> search.
> Here in this example I should get the result set which contains all the
> key
> words 'Microsoft', 'Released', 'Operating', 'System' in any order by
> ignoring the noise words automatically.
> Please give us your valid suggetions on this regards..
>
> Thanks in advance
> Sathian
>

Fulltext query not seeming to use "and"

I have the following:
SELECT jobTitle from position where FreeText(jobDescription,'sales and
ccna') order by JobTitle DESC
This gives me 11 hits
If change change the FreeText clause to:
FreeText(jobDescription,'sales')
I get the same 11 hits.
But if I change it to:
FreeText(jobDescription,'ccna')
I get no hits.
I would have thought 'sales and ccna' would also have given me 0 hits.
What am I missing?
Thanks,
Tom
You should use a boolean AND for this with Contains to get what you are
looking for.
select * from Contains(*,'"sales" and "ccna"')
FreeText will ignore the and unless it is removed from the noise word list,
in which case it will search on it. FreeText is a fuzzy search and not
exact. So it will rank rows which contain sales and ccna higher than rows
which contain only ccan or only sales.
..
"tshad" <tscheiderich@.ftsolutions.com> wrote in message
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>I have the following:
> SELECT jobTitle from position where FreeText(jobDescription,'sales
> and ccna') order by JobTitle DESC
> This gives me 11 hits
> If change change the FreeText clause to:
> FreeText(jobDescription,'sales')
> I get the same 11 hits.
> But if I change it to:
> FreeText(jobDescription,'ccna')
> I get no hits.
> I would have thought 'sales and ccna' would also have given me 0 hits.
> What am I missing?
> Thanks,
> Tom
>
|||"Hilary Cotter" <hilary.cotter@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> You should use a boolean AND for this with Contains to get what you are
> looking for.
> select * from Contains(*,'"sales" and "ccna"')
> FreeText will ignore the and unless it is removed from the noise word
> list, in which case it will search on it. FreeText is a fuzzy search and
> not exact. So it will rank rows which contain sales and ccna higher than
> rows which contain only ccan or only sales.
That was what I was looking for.
BTW you said that FreeText would rank the rows. Can you do that with
Contains? I would like to do this in some cases.
Thanks,
Tom
> .
> "tshad" <tscheiderich@.ftsolutions.com> wrote in message
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>
|||actually I made a mistake, both FreeTextTable and ContainsTable will return
a rank value.
Hilary Cotter
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"tshad" <tscheiderich@.ftsolutions.com> wrote in message
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> "Hilary Cotter" <hilary.cotter@.gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:OL0z5HbKFHA.436@.TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> That was what I was looking for.
> BTW you said that FreeText would rank the rows. Can you do that with
> Contains? I would like to do this in some cases.
> Thanks,
> Tom
>