Question

i want to write a query with Full-Text-Search on a column with varbinary(max) type that stored a .doc/.docx(MS-Word) file.
my query must returns records that contain a word in stored file.

is this possible?

if yes,how?(please write an example)

if yes,can we write that for other language(e.g Arabic,Persian or a UniCode characters)?

thank you beforehand.

Answer 1

What you’re looking for is fulltext indexing, which has been greatly improved in SQL Server 2008.

For an introduction, I would recommend checking out these articles here:

• SQL Server 2008 – Creating Full Text Catalog and Search
• Understanding Full-Text Indexing in SQL Server
• Fulltext-Indexing Workbench

Once you understand this and have created your own fulltext catalog, you should be able to search something like this:

SELECT ID, (other fields), DocumentColumn
FROM dbo.YourTable
WHERE CONTAINS(*, 'Microsoft Word')

And yes, Fulltext indexing and searching does support lots of languages – check out the links I’ve sent you and the SQL Server 2008 Books Online for details!

Marc