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Asked: 2026-05-13T12:18:49+00:00

I want to create a stored procedure to do some combined keyword search using

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I want to create a stored procedure to do some combined keyword search using CONTAINS,something like below:

SELECT theContent
FROM FtsTest
WHERE CONTAINS
   (theContent, 
   ' FORMSOF (INFLECTIONAL, keyword1) AND FORMSOF (INFLECTIONAL, keyword2)');

and he number of keywords may vary, so I tried to pass the whole ‘FORMSOF… AND FORMSOF…..’clause as a parameter,declaring the parameter as nvarchar(max),but it won’t let me do it,saying The argument type “nvarchar(max)” is invalid for argument 2 of “CONTAINS”.

So, is there any way to make it work with the sp?
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  1. Editorial Team

    You could build it dynamically and pass in the keywords as parameters. Executing with sp_executesql allows you to take advantage of the query plan cache, as described in the answers to this question:

    Alternative to executing dynamic sql

    You may need to watch out for this issue, though, that relates to parameter sniffing and full text queries:

    http://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=510118

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