Hi,
I have the problem that if I search for certain phrases in SQL 2005 such
as "voice over", it returns no results.
I am using the following syntax:
declare @criteria varchar(100)
select @Criteria = N'("voice*") AND ("over*")'
SELECT CategoryID, category, keywords
FROM tblCategory
WHERE CONTAINS(tblCategory.*, @Criteria)
In SQL 2000, I fixed this by following Hillary Cotter's advice and
removed the word "over" (and others) from the noise.eng file.
However now that I'm using SQL 2005, this doesn't seem to work.
I've edited both noise.eng and noise.enu, restarted the MS Search
service AND rerun the full text population and it's still not finding
the categories which contain the phrase "voice over".
Do things work differently in SQL Server 2005 or have I missed a step?
Thanks,
Nick...
Hilary Cotter - 23 Jun 2006 18:45 GMT
How large is your full-text indexed table? There appears to be some
anomalies with certain words when your catalog gets very large. Bouncing
MSFTESQL can help.

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> Hi,
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> Nick...
Nick Gilbert - 28 Jun 2006 15:32 GMT
> How large is your full-text indexed table? There appears to be some
> anomalies with certain words when your catalog gets very large. Bouncing
> MSFTESQL can help.
I think I was just getting confused with the new system. It seems that
SQL 2005 has a DIFFERENT noise words file called noiseENG.txt or
noiseENU.txt AND has a different process (I think I was restarting MS
Search), but as you said, you need to restart SQL Server FullText Search
(msftesql.exe) and then re-run a full population.
Is it a sensible idea to turn on "Track changes automatically"? Or
should I just run a full-repop nightly?
Nick...