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Asked: 2026-06-17T09:34:03+00:00

select top 10 * from table where contains(*,’abc*’) works and returns 6 rows abcdef

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select top 10 * from table where contains(*,'"abc*"')

works and returns 6 rows

abcdef

abcd

abcd

abcde

ABCDEFGH

ABCDEFG

select top 10 * from table where contains(*,'"*bc*"')

returns no records found.

Does anyone know how I can get the ‘”*bc*“‘ function to work ?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Leading wildcard searches will exclude the use of any index… including full-text indexing.

    So "*bc*" isn’t compatible with full-text indexing… and a non-full-text search such as LIKE '%bc%' will result in a full-table scan.

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