Full-text queries perform linguistic
searches against text data in full-text indexes by operating on words
and phrases based on rules of a particular language such as English or
Japanese. Full-text queries can include simple words and phrases or
multiple forms of a word or phrase.
Full-text search is
applicable in a wide range of business scenarios such as
e-businesses—searching for items on a web site; law firms—searching for
case histories in a legal-data repository; or human resources
departments—matching job descriptions with stored resumes. The basic
administrative and development tasks of full-text search are equivalent
regardless of business scenarios. However, in a given business scenario,
full-text index and queries can be honed to meet business goals. For
example, for an e-business maximizing performance might be more
important than ranking of results, recall accuracy (how many of the
existing matches are actually returned by a full-text query), or
supporting multiple languages. For a law firm, returning every possible
hit (total recall of information) might be the most important consideration.
For any scenario, a database
administrator performs the following basic steps to configure table
columns in a database for full-text search:
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Create a full-text catalog.
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On each table that you want to search, create a full-text index by:
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Identify each text columns that you want to include in the full-text index.
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If a given column contains documents stored as binary data (varbinary(max), or image data), you must specify a table column (the type column) that identifies the type of each document in the column being indexed.
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Specify the language that you want full-text search to use on the documents in the column.
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Choose the change-tracking mechanism that you want to use on
the full-text index to track changes in the base table and its columns.
Full-text search supports multiple languages through the use of the following linguistic components:
word breakers and stemmers, stoplists that contain stopwords (also
known as noise words), and thesaurus files. Thesaurus files and, in some
cases, stoplists require configuration by a database administrator. A
given thesaurus file supports all full-text indexes that use the
corresponding language, and a given stoplist can be associated with as
many full-text indexes as you want.
Article ID: 192, Created: August 28, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Modified: August 28, 2012 at 10:20 PM