The parser was less strict in SQL 2000. It seems you have stumbled across a
sequence that works. The work around would be strip non-alphanumeric
characters from the end of your search string.

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Hilary Cotter
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Hilary, thank you for the reply - we already implement your suggested
workaround for most of our full-text searches and so will extend this to the
parts catalog. I guess I was also angling for a slightly more technical
account of how and where parser functionality has changed between 2000 and
2005, but thank you anyway!
dvc
> The parser was less strict in SQL 2000. It seems you have stumbled across a
> sequence that works. The work around would be strip non-alphanumeric
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> > Thank you for your help
Hilary Cotter - 17 Apr 2008 13:37 GMT
I don't have one unfortunately, however see this post for a reference to
other parser anomalies in SQL 2000:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.sqlserver.fulltext/msg/7c06fb365
e79973f?dmode=source
> Hilary, thank you for the reply - we already implement your suggested
> workaround for most of our full-text searches and so will extend this to
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>> > Thank you for your help
dvc - 17 Apr 2008 16:38 GMT
Hilary, thank you again for this reference.
> I don't have one unfortunately, however see this post for a reference to
> other parser anomalies in SQL 2000:
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> >> > Thank you for your help