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I am using fulltext search to get a search result but if I use containstable only, the result must have all the search terms. If I use freetexttable only, the result does not include predicts. So I am unioning the two results together and then ordering them by rank. My problem is that the union will not eliminate the duplicates because the rank value for each search is different.
Here is psuedo code of what I am currently doing.
@contains_srch_param = N'"Rand*" AND "Doe*"', @freetext_srch_param = N'Rand Doe'
Select entityId, name, title, address, rank From ( Select Top(50) e.entityId e.name, e.title, e.address, keyTable.Rank From entity e inner join ContainsTable(srch_param, param_val, @contains_srch_param) as keyTable on e.entityId = keyTable.key Order by keyTable.Rank desc Union Select Top(50) e.entityId e.name, e.title, e.address, keyTable.Rank From entity e inner join FreeTextTable(srch_param, param_val, @freetext_srch_param) as keyTable on e.entityId = keyTable.key Order by keyTable.Rank desc ) result Order by rank desc, name;
Results in 1 Randy Doe, director, 123 main st, 262 2 Jane Doe, employee, 321 other st, 260 1 Randy Doe, director, 123 main st, 160
The first and third result are actually the same person, so I need to remove the one with the lower rank. How can I do this or can someone offer a better option of searching.
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Pseudocode of my guess!
Select e.entityId, a.name, a.title, a.address, e.rank From ( Select entityId, max(Rank) Rank from ( Select Top(50) e.entityId keyTable.Rank From entity e inner join ContainsTable(srch_param, param_val, @contains_srch_param) as keyTable on e.entityId = keyTable.key -- Order by keyTable.Rank desc (probably not needed) Union Select Top(50) e.entityId keyTable.Rank From entity e inner join FreeTextTable(srch_param, param_val, @freetext_srch_param) as keyTable on e.entityId = keyTable.key -- Order by keyTable.Rank desc (probably not needed) ) ranking_subquery Group by entityId ) e join entity a on e.entityId = a.entityId Order by rank desc, name;
edit: Forgot a "group by"
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