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pandaface
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Posted - 2011-04-20 : 11:32:49
Hi everyone! Hope you can provide me some direction with my questions:

I've been working at a job for just over a year now doing tech support for clients. This required querying the database and such, so I have a basic understanding of SQL.

My job is to create incident tickets for the other employees and myself to work on. These keep track of our performance and such, and they are saved in our own SQL database.

The need for a way to find similar past incidents for newly created tickets has arisen. The best way I can think of doing this is to have a way to search a for fields with the same words in it.

Am I making sense?

Basically, I want a way to "google", per se, our database for similar incidents to newly created ones. Can anyone offer help here?

robvolk
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15732 Posts

Posted - 2011-04-20 : 11:36:31
Full-text indexing and search is probably your best bet: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms142571.aspx
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pandaface
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Posted - 2011-04-20 : 12:03:00
Thanks for the quick response! I'll see where this takes me.
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