Troubleshooting your FORMSOF & INFLECTIONAL searches not working, SQL Server 2005
Posted by Iain on Wed (9/01/08) at 1:08pm to Development
For the life of me, I couldn’t figure out why I didn’t get different results, using SQL Server 2005, for a simple Full-Text Search query and a Full-Text Search query using the FORMSOF and INFLECTIONAL keywords.
What I stumbled across eventually was that when creating and configuring my SQL Full-Text Indexes, I had left the language parameter as the default selection. When I changed this to English, voila!, my FORMSOF (INFLECTIONAL, @query) queries started to produces fantastic search results!
Also, an example query showing how to parameterize the the search term, and how to rank your results:
SET @query = ‘FORMSOF (INFLECTIONAL, ‘ + @query + ‘)’
SELECT FT.rank, P.id, P.title
FROM Products P
INNER JOIN CONTAINSTABLE (Products, *, @query) AS FT ON P.id = FT.[key]
If you’ve any questions, I’ll do my best to help. Also, if you’re just starting with Full-Text, check out my posts on installing Full-Text Search on SQL Server 2005 and how to setup and configure SQL Server 2005 Express Full-Text Search the easy way.
on January 9th, 2008 at 1:16pm
[…] For each column, select the column, and select the appropriate language To understand why the language parameter is important, see my post on use of the FORMSOF and INFLECTIONAL keywords in SQL Full-Text Search […]
on April 9th, 2008 at 9:21pm
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.