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Understanding SQL Server Full-Text Search, Part I

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SQL Full-text Search (SQL FTS) is an optional component of SQL Server 7 and later, which allows fast and efficient querying when you have large amounts of unstructured data. This is the first of a two-part article that explores the full-text language features that ship with SQL Server versions 7, 2000, and 2005, with particular focus on the new language features in SQL 2005.

2006-05-02

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The String Distance I

In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:

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