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Can someone explain this to me? I have two queries below with their results.
query:
select * from tbl where contains([name], '"*he*" AND "*ca*"')
result-set:
Hertz Car Rental
Hemingyway’s Cantina
query:
select * from tbl where contains([name], '"*he*" AND "*ar*"')
result-set:
nothing
The first query is what I would expect, however I would expect the second query to return “Hertz Car Rental”. Am I fundamentally misunderstanding how ‘*’ works in full-text searching?
Thanks!
I think SQL Server is interpreting your strings as prefix_terms. The asterisk is not a plain old wildcard specifier. Fulltext and Contains are word oriented. For what you are trying to do, you would be better off using plain old LIKE instead of CONTAINS.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187787.aspx