Question

OK this is the situation..

I am enabling fulltext search on a table but it only works on some fields..

CREATE FULLTEXT CATALOG [defaultcatalog]
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX ui_staticid on static(id)
CREATE FULLTEXT INDEX ON static(title_gr LANGUAGE 19,title_en,description_gr LANGUAGE 19,description_en) KEY INDEX staticid ON [defaultcatalog] WITH CHANGE_TRACKING AUTO

now why the following will bring results

Select * from static where freetext(description_en, N'str')

and this not (while the both have text with str in it ..)

Select * from static where freetext(description_gr, N'str')

(i have tried it also without the language specification – greek in this case)
(the collation is of the database is Greek_CI_AS)
btw

Select * from static where description_gr like N'%str%'

will work just fine ..

all fields are nvarchar type and the _gr fields hold english and greek text..(should not matter)

All help will be greatly appreciated

Answer 1

Just trying to figure out what’s going on: what do you get with this query here?

SELECT * FROM static WHERE FREETEXT(*, N'str')

If you’re not explicitly specifying any column to search in – does it give you the expected results?

Another point: I think you have a wrong language ID in your statement. According to SQL Server Books Online:

When specified as a string,
language_term corresponds to the alias
column value in the syslanguages
system table. The string must be
enclosed in single quotation marks, as
in ‘language_term’. When specified
as an integer, language_term is the
actual LCID that identifies the
language.

and from what I found on the internet searching around, the LCID for Greek is 1032 – not 19. Can you try with 1032 instead of 19? Does that make a difference?

Marc