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How can I return singular form when a user enters the plural form of a noun. eg. On my website product search if a user enters “Gucci low cut pants” the results should return “Gucci low cut pant”. I am unable to use Full Text Search as this column is not unique.
The answer is still full-text search. I believe you misunderstand the limitations. A unique index is required on the table (surely you have one of those); it does not have to be on the column(s) that you’re interested in including in your full-text index. I’m not even sure how that would possibly work, since a unique index can’t have a key size > 900 bytes, and full-text search certainly works on columns that can’t be declared unique (e.g. max types)…