full-text search examples

A. Using CONTAINS with <simple_term>

The following example finds all products with a price of $80.99 that contain the word "Mountain".

USE AdventureWorks2012 GO SELECT Name, ListPrice FROM Production.Product WHERE ListPrice = 80.99 AND CONTAINS(Name, 'Mountain') GO

B. Using FREETEXT to search for words containing specified character values

The following example searches for all documents containing the words related to vital, safety, components.

USE AdventureWorks2012 GO SELECT Title FROM Production.Document WHERE FREETEXT (Document, 'vital safety components') GO

C. Using CONTAINSTABLE

The following example returns the description ID and description of all products for which the Description column contain the word "aluminum" near either the word "light" or the word "lightweight." Only rows with a rank value of 2 or higher are returned.

USE AdventureWorks2012 GO SELECT FT_TBL.ProductDescriptionID, FT_TBL.Description, KEY_TBL.RANK FROM Production.ProductDescription AS FT_TBL INNER JOIN CONTAINSTABLE (Production.ProductDescription, Description, '(light NEAR aluminum) OR (lightweight NEAR aluminum)' ) AS KEY_TBL ON FT_TBL.ProductDescriptionID = KEY_TBL.[KEY] WHERE KEY_TBL.RANK > 2 ORDER BY KEY_TBL.RANK DESC; GO

D. Using FREETEXTTABLE

The following example extends a FREETEXTTABLE query to return the highest ranked rows first and to add the ranking of each row to the select list. To specify the query, you must know that ProductDescriptionID is the unique key column for the ProductDescription table.

USE AdventureWorks2012 GO SELECT KEY_TBL.RANK, FT_TBL.Description FROM Production.ProductDescription AS FT_TBL INNER JOIN FREETEXTTABLE(Production.ProductDescription, Description, 'perfect all-around bike') AS KEY_TBL ON FT_TBL.ProductDescriptionID = KEY_TBL.[KEY] ORDER BY KEY_TBL.RANK DESC GO

Here is an extension of the same query that only returns rows with a rank value of 10 or greater:Here is an extension of the same query that only returns rows with a rank value of 10 or greater:

USE AdventureWorks2012 GO SELECT KEY_TBL.RANK, FT_TBL.Description FROM Production.ProductDescription AS FT_TBL INNER JOIN FREETEXTTABLE(Production.ProductDescription, Description, 'perfect all-around bike') AS KEY_TBL ON FT_TBL.ProductDescriptionID = KEY_TBL.[KEY] WHERE KEY_TBL.RANK >= 10 ORDER BY KEY_TBL.RANK DESC GO

B. Using FREETEXTTABLE

The following example extends a FREETEXTTABLE query to return the highest ranked rows first and to add the ranking of each row to the select list. To specify the query, you must know that ProductDescriptionID is the unique key column for the ProductDescription table.

The following example uses the ProductDescription table of the AdventureWorks2012 database. The query uses the CONTAINS predicate to search for descriptions in which the description ID is not equal to 5 and the description contains both the word "Aluminum" and the word "spindle." The search condition uses the AND Boolean operator.

USE AdventureWorks2012 GO SELECT Description FROM Production.ProductDescription WHERE ProductDescriptionID <> 5 AND CONTAINS(Description, 'aluminum AND spindle') GO