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AjarnMark
SQL Slashing Gunting Master
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| OK, this time I've been a good boy and have been searching and reading BOL and this site. I'm trying to avoid using a Full-Text index (perception of extra overhead to maintain), unless convinced otherwise. Is there a decent way to do a "match whole-word only" search using LIKE statements? Here's a sample:CREATE TABLE #TestSearch ( StoryID int IDENTITY, Body varchar(200))GOSET NOCOUNT ONINSERT INTO #TestSearch (Body) VALUES ('This is a story about a cat.')INSERT INTO #TestSearch (Body) VALUES ('The mayor categorically denied that he was drunk at Mardi Gras.')INSERT INTO #TestSearch (Body) VALUES ('I once had a dog.')INSERT INTO #TestSearch (Body) VALUES ('Your cat makes me sneeze.')INSERT INTO #TestSearch (Body) VALUES ('Cats think they rule the world, but a dog is always glad to see you.')GOSET NOCOUNT OFFGOSELECT * FROM #TestSearch WHERE Body LIKE '% cat %'GODROP TABLE #TestSearchGOThe problem is that the word may be at the beginning, end, or have punctuation around it. I don't really want to do a gazillion OR LIKE statements. Ideally, the solution would return stories 1 and 4 (5 would also be nice) but skip 2 and 3.Any ideas? (SQL 7, NT4, ASP front-end)------------------------------------------------------------------Contractor$ never die, they just leave for higher-paying project$. |
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Whole Word Search