Serach for a particular string in different columns in a table

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Posted Tuesday, January 08, 2013 1:47 AM

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Hi,

is there a simpler way to search for a partcular string in different columns in a table. currently I have the following case statement. it's working fine but I was wondering if there is another way to do it?

case
when
tbl_Name.Col_1=1
or
tbl_Name.Col_2 like '%MyString%'
Or
tbl_Name.Col_3 like '%MyString%'
or
tbl_Name.Col_4 like '%MyString%'
or
tbl_Name.Col_5 like '%MyString%'
Then 1
else 0
End

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Posted Tuesday, January 08, 2013 2:03 AM

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Have you tried Full Text Indexing?

John

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Posted Tuesday, January 08, 2013 2:04 AM

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I have never used it before may you please post example

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Posted Tuesday, January 08, 2013 2:12 AM

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- You can create a computed column and search on it
Or
- Try to do that with Full-Text Search
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms142571.aspx

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