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I have a table with 117000 or so records. I need to perform a search that checks 3 separate fields for a given string pattern.
My where clause is as follows:
field1 LIKE '%' + @DESC + '%'
OR field2 LIKE '%' + @DESC + '%'
OR field3 LIKE '%' + @DESC + '%'
This seems to take about 24 seconds regardless of input…
Is there a better way to do this? Less than 10 (or 5!) seconds would be much more preferable.
Thanks for any help.
Use Full Text Search and CONTAINS. LIKE cannot be optimized when searching in the middle of the field, ie. when the LIKE expression starts with an ‘%’, so it will always do a full table scan.