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Asked: 2026-05-12T11:12:12+00:00

I am trying to implement a feature similar to the "Related Questions" on Stackoverflow.

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I am trying to implement a feature similar to the "Related Questions" on Stackoverflow.

How do I go about writing the SQL statement that will search the Title and Summary field of my database for similar questions?

If my questions is: "What is the SQL used to do a search similar to "Related Questions" on Stackoverflow".

Steps that I can think of are;

  1. Strip the quotation marks
  2. Split the sentence into an array of words and run a SQL search on each word.

If I do it this way, I am guessing that I wouldn’t get any meaningful results. I am not sure if Full Text Search is enabled on the server, so I am not using that. Will there be an advantage of using Full Text Search?

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  1. Editorial Team

    After enabling Full Text search on my SQL 2005 server, I am using the following stored procedure to search for text.

    ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[GetSimilarIssues] 
(
 @InputSearch varchar(255)
)
AS
BEGIN
-- SET NOCOUNT ON added to prevent extra result sets from
-- interfering with SELECT statements.
SET NOCOUNT ON;

DECLARE @SearchText varchar(500);

SELECT @SearchText = '"' + @InputSearch + '*"'

SELECT  PostId, Summary, [Description], 
Created
FROM Issue

WHERE FREETEXT (Summary, @SearchText);
END
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