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More complex searching is likely to be a requirement in the future, but for many of us, this won't require us to learn much.
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Full Text Searching
How to Enable and Disable Full Text Search for SQL Server Databases
Learn how to enable or disable full text search for a specific database on a SQL Server instance where the Full Text Search components have been setup.
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Searching Words and Phrases in a Rich Text Field
Searching for data in a database is something we all do constantly, but few of us use the Full-Text Search features of SQL Server. Yousef Ekhtiari brings us a look at how you can get around some of the limitations of this feature and possibly use it in your application.
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Are you considering upgrading from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005? Are you using Full-Text Search? One of the top SQL Server consultants in New York walks us through an interesting issue that you might want to consider before migrating your databases.
2008-01-18 (first published: 2007-03-08)
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SQL Server Full Text Search Language Features, Part 2
This is the second of a two-part article that explores the language features of SQL Full-text Search (SQL FTS), an component of SQL Server 7 and above that allows fast and efficient querying of large amounts of unstructured textual data. Part I dealt with index time language options, covering how words or tokens are broken from the text stream emitted from the iFilters and stored in the index.
2006-07-14
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UNISTR Escape
In SQL Server 2025, I run this command:
SELECT UNISTR('*3041*308A*304C\3068 and good night', '*') as "A Classic";
What is returned? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
A: 
B: 
C: 
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