Question

How do I search for a specific word only in full text indexed fields ?

I know I could just do “where field=’word'” but I would rather have the search form as generic as possible and throw the search term to the CONTAINS, FREETEXT functions.

Seems there should be a word boundary or end of phrase character that could be used but there doesn’t seem to be one.

I’m using MS SQL Server 2005.

Answer 1

In order to use Contains or FreeText, you must have a full-text index on the column(s) in question. Assuming you do, then you can force a search for a specific word by enclosing in double-quotes:

Select ..
From Table
Where Contains( SomeCol, '"word"')

CONTAINS (Transact-SQL)

Update

If what you seek is to return results where the contents is only and exactly your search term, then the only way to do that is to use = or Like without a wildcard. I.e., there is no means to search on an exact match of the entire contents using the full-text search predicates. Thus, you must use:

Select ..
From Table
Where SomeCol = 'word'

Select ..
From Table
Where SomeCol Like 'word'