lnardozi 61862 (10/13/2013)
At this point, you're better off just creating a full text index on table2 and searching it. You can join it to table2 and perform LIKE '%a%' on the result set returned.
You could be right but the FTI wouldn't be on Table 2 according to the OPs latest post. It would only be needed on Table 1. Fortunately, I don't see any requirements to join Table 1 to Table 2 under such conditions.
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