Question

I have this sql query where I’m trying to use CONTAINS to search the title field.

But I get this error.

“Cannot use a CONTAINS or FREETEXT predicate on column ‘Title’ because it is not full-text indexed.”

The Titles table has been indexed and a CONTAINS works fine with a simple search.

Does anyone know what I’m doing wrong? Are CONTAIN queries not supported with inline queries?

This query is being ran in SQL Server 2008.

SELECT pi.PublisherGUID, pi.Publisher, pi.TitleGUID, pi.Title, 
  pi.YearsPublished, pi.FrontImage, pi.IssueGUID, pi.IssueNumber, 
  pi.IssueVariation, pi.IssueNotes, pi.CoverDate, pi.IsForSale 
  FROM (
    SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY PublicIssues.Title,PublicIssues.IssueNumber) AS RowNum, 
      PublicIssues.PublisherGUID, PublicIssues.Publisher, 
      PublicIssues.TitleGUID, PublicIssues.Title, 
      PublicIssues.YearsPublished, PublicIssues.FrontImage, 
      PublicIssues.IssueGUID, PublicIssues.IssueNumber, 
      PublicIssues.IssueVariation, PublicIssues.IssueNotes, 
      PublicIssues.CoverDate, PublicIssues.IsForSale
      FROM (SELECT dbo.tblTitles.PublisherGUID, dbo.tblPublishers.Name AS Publisher, 
            dbo.tblTitles.TitleGUID, dbo.tblTitles.Title, 
            dbo.tblTitles.YearsPublished, dbo.tblIssues.IssueGUID, 
            dbo.tblIssues.IssueNumber, dbo.tblIssues.IssueVariation, 
            dbo.tblIssues.IssueNotes, dbo.tblIssues.CoverDate, 
            dbo.tblStockIssueImages.FrontImage, 
            ci_owner.IssueForSale(dbo.tblIssues.IssueGUID) AS IsForSale
            FROM dbo.tblStockIssueImages RIGHT OUTER JOIN
                dbo.tblIssues ON 
                dbo.tblStockIssueImages.StockIssueImageGUID = dbo.tblIssues.StockIssueImageGUID 
                LEFT OUTER JOIN
                dbo.tblTitles INNER JOIN
                dbo.tblPublishers ON dbo.tblTitles.PublisherGUID = dbo.tblPublishers.PublisherGUID 
                ON dbo.tblIssues.TitleGUID = dbo.tblTitles.TitleGUID
            ) 
    AS PublicIssues
    WHERE 1=1 AND CONTAINS(Title,@xTitle)
  ) AS pi
WHERE RowNum BETWEEN (@xPageNum - 1) * @xPageSize + 1 AND 
@xPageNum * @xPageSize ORDER BY pi.Title

Answer 1

Indeed, in the context of PublicIssues, Title is not full-text indexed.

It is indexed in the the table tblTitles.

I think it may be possible to move the CONTAINS predicate inside the expression which defines PublicIssues. Something like the following. However I suspect (with the hint of the 1=1) that the idea is to have various other criteria, and it may not be feasible to have all of them “inside”. It being [apparently] dynamic SQL, it may be feasible to craft the query by placing the search criteria in one of the two locations as appropriate.

  FROM (SELECT dbo.tblTitles.PublisherGUID, dbo.tblPublishers.Name AS Publisher, 
        dbo.tblTitles.TitleGUID, dbo.tblTitles.Title, 
            dbo.tblTitles.YearsPublished, dbo.tblIssues.IssueGUID, 
            dbo.tblIssues.IssueNumber, dbo.tblIssues.IssueVariation, 
            dbo.tblIssues.IssueNotes, dbo.tblIssues.CoverDate, 
        dbo.tblStockIssueImages.FrontImage, 
            ci_owner.IssueForSale(dbo.tblIssues.IssueGUID) AS IsForSale
        FROM dbo.tblStockIssueImages RIGHT OUTER JOIN
                    dbo.tblIssues ON 
                    dbo.tblStockIssueImages.StockIssueImageGUID = dbo.tblIssues.StockIssueImageGUID 
                    LEFT OUTER JOIN
                    dbo.tblTitles INNER JOIN
                    dbo.tblPublishers ON dbo.tblTitles.PublisherGUID = dbo.tblPublishers.PublisherGUID 
                    ON dbo.tblIssues.TitleGUID = dbo.tblTitles.TitleGUID

             WHERE CONTAINS(Title,@xTitle)  --- this lined moved
            ) 
AS PublicIssues