How do I use full text search across multiple tables, SQL Server 2005

Question

I have a full text catalog with two tables in it.

tableA has 4 columns (a1, a2, a3, a4) of wich 3 are indexed in the catalog, a2,a3,a4. a1 is the primary key.

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Answer 1

Your query only returns records, if both A and related B contains the search text.

You do not state what does not work, though.

Why not LEFT OUTER JOIN the fulltext searches, and replace:

SELECT *, (ISNULL(ftTableA.[RANK], 0) + ISNULL(ftTableB.[RANK], 0)) AS total_rank 

and

WHERE ftTableA.Key IS NOT NULL OR ftTableB.Key IS NOT NULL