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Asked: 2026-05-27T18:39:03+00:00

I have a table in my sql server 2005 database which contains about 50

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I have a table in my sql server 2005 database which contains about 50 million records.
I have firstName and LastName columns, and I would like to be able to allow the user to search on these columns without it taking forever.
Out of indexing these columns, is there a way to make my query work fast?
Also, I want to search similar sounded names. for example, if the user searches for Danny, I would like to return records with the name Dan, Daniel as well. It would be nice to show the user a rank in % how close the result he got to what he actually searched.
I know this is a tuff task, but I bet I’m not the first one in the world that face this issue 🙂

Thanks for your help.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Have you tried full text indexing? I used it on free text fields in a table over 1 million records, and found it to be pretty fast. Plus you can add synonyms to it, so that Dan, Danial, and Danny all index as the same (where you get the dictionary of name equivalents is a different story). It does allow wildcard searches as well. Full text indexing can also do rank, though I found it to be less useful on names (better for documents).

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