Jan 12, 2013 · SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE Column1 CONTAINS 'word1 And word2 And word3' For details, see CONTAINS (Transact-SQL). For selecting phrases, use double quotes like:

Sep 22, 2011 · Having run both queries on a SQL Server 2012 instance, I can confirm the first query was fastest in my case. The query with the LIKE keyword showed a clustered index scan.

Jun 14, 2013 · the above query i am using to searching a product. If i use like operator it will take more time then contains () and also i need full text search.So i need Contains () my point of view.

Mar 2, 2017 · I have a column which is called studentID, but I have millions of records and somehow the application has input some arbitrary text in the column. How do I search: SELECT * FROM …

In SQL Server database I have a View with a lot of INNER JOINs statements. The last join uses LIKE predicate and that's why it's working too slowly. The query looks like : SELECT * FROM A INNER JO...

Oct 19, 2014 · Instead of contains use like, because from the docs: CONTAINS is a predicate used in the WHERE clause of a Transact-SQL SELECT statement to perform SQL Server full-text search on …

May 29, 2012 · I have an SQL query as below. Select * from table where name like '%' + search_criteria + '%' If search_criteria = 'abc', it will return data containing xxxabcxxxx which is fine.

Mar 3, 2010 · I'm trying to implement a very basic keyword search in an application using linq-to-sql. My search terms are in an array of strings, each array item being one word, and I would like to find the rows

Jun 5, 2012 · Is there a method to use contain rather than equal in case statement? For example, I am checking a database table has an entry lactulose, Lasix (furosemide), oxazepam, propranolol, …

Oct 7, 2011 · CONTAINS is a totally different function, it is a predicate based query for full-text columns; it is not a function to determine if a column contain a string in it. For the query you are running, you …