Escaping special characters Full text index search
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I have created a full text index on a column of a table. The issue is i need to search for AT&T.
the query i use for search is
SELECT * FROM TABLE_NAME WHERE CONTAINS(COLUMN_NAME, '"AT&T*"')
It returns many records but doesn't return the records with AT&T in it. I guess '&' is killing it, but i have no idea how to escape it in case of full text index search.
Any help will be deeply appreciated.
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The '*' is killing you. Use '%' instead.
If you want to search for text that for example contains % or other special characters you have to escape them.
See the example below:
SELECT * FROM
(
SELECT UserName + '&%' + Email AS A FROM Employees
) G
WHERE G.A LIKE '%s&!%x%' ESCAPE '!'
I am concatenating two fields adding &% in between. No escaping needed there.
And I want to look for any record that has the literal pattern 's&%x' inside it
So in the LIKE however, I start with an '%s (the equivalent of *), follow with an 's', follow with an '&' (no escaping needed) and then I escape the '%' using any character I like, so I chose '!'. Then follows 'x' and '%' for the rest of the string.
Pretty straightforward right?
Cheers
Dimitris
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dimitris.staikos (7/8/2012)
The '*' is killing you. Use '%' instead.Keep in mind that this isn't standard T-SQL. It's Full Text Search.
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
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Yeah, you are right, thanks
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