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  • March 28, 2017 at 7:32 pm

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    ash304 - Tuesday, March 28, 2017 6:27 PM

    Hi Grant, 

    Sorry to make you a bit nervous 🙂
    No, it is not your book!

    I have not read your book yet. Before committing myself to reading another book, if possible, I would like to read some short introductions to FTS. Do you know of any good material available online?

    Thanks!
    Ashish

    These are both good:
    Understanding Full-Text Indexing in SQL Server - Robert Sheldon
    Full-Text Search -- Microsoft's online documentation

    The Robert Sheldon Article is a great intro. The Microsoft documentation is pretty precise about what's involved in setting up and maintaining FTS.

    Note that setting up and maintaining FTS is not a trivial task.  4 out of 5 times I've seen it implemented it's been in environments where the same objective could be accomplished using good ol' fashioned T-SQL.

    "I cant stress enough the importance of switching from a sequential files mindset to set-based thinking. After you make the switch, you can spend your time tuning and optimizing your queries instead of maintaining lengthy, poor-performing code."

    -- Itzik Ben-Gan 2001