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I tried to use full-text search for a table called “Business” in SQL Server 2008. Here is the statement (the search term is in Chinese).
select * from Business biz where CONTAINS(biz.*,'家具')
And then I use like statement to do the same
select * from Business where Name like '%家具%'
The full-text search returns 8 results and the like search returns 9 results which is what I expected. Does anyone know what might cause this?
I don’t know the Chinese language, so I can’t say for sure, but here’s my best guess.
SQL Server’s fulltext searching is word based, while LIKE is looking for character patterns within a string. As an example in English, a CONTAINS search for “warn” would not find the word “forewarned”, but a LIKE for ‘%warn%’ would.