Integrating Full-Text Search and Transact-SQL Predicates
The CONTAINS and FREETEXT predicates can be combined with any of the other Transact-SQL predicates, such as LIKE and BETWEEN; they can also be used in a subquery. This example searches for descriptions in which the description ID is not equal to 5 and in which the description contains the word "Aluminum" and the word "spindle."
USE AdventureWorks;
GO
SELECT Description
FROM Production.ProductDescription
WHERE ProductDescriptionID <> 5 AND
CONTAINS(Description, ' Aluminum AND spindle');
GO
The following query uses CONTAINS within a subquery. Using the AdventureWorks database, the query obtains the comment value of all the comments in the ProductReview table for a particular cycle.
USE AdventureWorks;
GO
INSERT INTO Production.ProductReview
(ProductID, ReviewerName, EmailAddress, Rating, Comments)
VALUES
(780, 'John Smith', 'john@fourthcoffee.com', 5,
'The Mountain-200 Silver from AdventureWorks Cycles meets and exceeds expectations. I enjoyed the smooth ride down the roads of Redmond')
-- Given the full-text catalog for these tables is Adv_ft_ctlg,
-- with change_tracking on so that the full-text indexes are updated automatically.
WAITFOR DELAY '00:00:30'
-- Wait 30 seconds to make sure that the full-text index gets updated.
SELECT r.Comments, p.Name
FROM Production.ProductReview r
JOIN Production.Product p
ON
r.ProductID = p.ProductID
AND r.ProductID = (SELECT ProductID
FROM Production.ProductReview
WHERE CONTAINS (Comments,
' AdventureWorks AND
Redmond AND
"Mountain-200 Silver" '))
GO
See Also
Other Resources
CONTAINS (Transact-SQL)
FREETEXT (Transact-SQL)
WHERE (Transact-SQL)