Question

I have some table ‘TableName’ like Id,Name:

1 | something
2 | _something
3 | something like that
4 | some_thing
5 | ...

I want to get all rows from this table where name containes ‘some’.
I have 2 ways:

SELECT * FROM TableName WHERE Name like '%some%'

Result is table :

1 | something
2 | _something
3 | something like that
4 | some_thing

But if I use CONTAINS function

SELECT * FROM TableName WHERE CONTAINS(Name,'"*some*"')

I get only

1 | something
3 | something like that

What should I do to make CONTAINS function work properly?

Answer 1

http://doc.ddart.net/mssql/sql70/ca-co_15.htm

If you read this article you will see that * means prefix this means that word must start with this, but like means the word contains key phrase.

Best Regards,
Iordan