FullText search with CONTAINS on multiple columns and predicate - AND

Question

I have a search table with, say, 4 columns of text data to search.

I do something like this:

SELECT * FROM dbo.SearchTable
WHERE CONTAINS((co1, col2,         


        

Answer 1

This should work:

SELECT * FROM dbo.SearchTable
WHERE CONTAINS((co1, col2, col3, col4), 'term1')
AND CONTAINS((co1, col2, col3, col4), 'term2');

Alternatively, you could add a new computed column with a full text index on it. Add a column like this:

computedCol AS col1 + ' ' + col2 + ' ' + col3 + ' ' + col4

And create the full text index:

CREATE FULLTEXT INDEX ON SearchTable (computedCol LANGUAGE 1033)
KEY INDEX pk_SearchTable_yourPrimaryKeyName

Then you can do this:

SELECT * FROM dbo.SearchTable
WHERE CONTAINS(*, 'term1 AND term2')