Comments on: Troubleshooting your FORMSOF & INFLECTIONAL searches not working, SQL Server 2005

By: abhimanyu

abhimanyu — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 01:03:46 +0000

my sql connection is not establishing in sql server authentication.it is showing an error that the user is notassosiated with a trusted sql server connection

By: Tyler Collier

Tyler Collier — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:23:58 +0000

Thanks for two tips here. One, the language. I would’ve thought the default “Neutral” language would have been acceptable, but alas, it was not. Two, showing how to parameterize was good because I foolishly left my parameter within single quotes, so it looked like this at first:

contains(FieldName, ‘FORMSOF (INFLECTIONAL, @SearchText) ‘)

With your help, I realized this had to be changed to be more like yours where I put @SearchText, as well as the ‘FORMSOF (INFLECTIONAL)’ portion inside another variable.

Thanks!

By: Abhang

Abhang — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:41:15 +0000

Howdy,
Thanks dude. Actually the way I was building the query string was incorrect. I had too many ( and ) in the query. Just plain ‘formsof(inflectional,used) and formsof(inflectional,chair)’ works. I am planning to create a Thesaurus for improving the search quality, lets see how that goes.

By: Iain

Iain — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:13:17 +0000

Hi Abhang, I’m can’t say for sure why you’re query isn’t working, but I see several differences between your proposed query and the example I provide.

Firstly, you’re using CONTAINS and not CONTAINSTABLE. If you use CONTAINSTABLE, note that its joined using INNERJOIN to the table you’re searching, and it’s parameters are the table name, column names, and then your query.

Finally, you’re applying FORMSOF to each query term individually – in my example I put the whole query together, and that works fine for me.

Good luck, let me know how you get on.

By: Abhang

Abhang — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:45:23 +0000

Hi there,
I am having a tough time with these indices. I believe I have all right installation for full text. A query like select * from Item
where contains(title, ‘used and chair and pune’) returns the result I want, but a query like select * from Item
where contains(title, ‘((formsof(inflectional,used)) and (formsof(inflectional,chair)) and (formsof(inflectional,pune)))’)

does not return anything. So is this something to do with the way inflectional keyword works? Any comments appreciated.

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:21:13 +0000

Is there a table that can be viewed to show what the variations of inflectional words are? I need to do inflectional searches based upon a list of about 400 words, but I don’t know if all of the words I’m expecting to be found will be.

By: SQL Server 2005 Express Full-Text Search Setup Tutorial - Web Strategy Blog

SQL Server 2005 Express Full-Text Search Setup Tutorial - Web Strategy Blog — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:16:26 +0000

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