Need advice on searching text fields

I have a table with 2 million + rows. I need to allow the user to do a quer
y
such as is shown below. I have full text search enabled on this database,
and have built a text search catalog for it. The problem is, that I keep
getting timeouts on the query. Granted, I can increase the timout value to
a
value that works, but I need this to come back fairly quick. I need advice
on how to set up this application. Think of eBay. You can search on any
term. They have to have millions of rows in their database also. How do
they return results so quick? They have to be doing very similar query logi
c?
Select * From [Table] Where ([Field1] + [Field2] Like '%term1%')
AND ([Field1] + [Field2] Like '%term2%')Does the LIKE operator utilize the full-text search engine? Perhaps you be
using the CONTAINS and FREETEXT functions instead.
"Brian Kitt" <BrianKitt@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a table with 2 million + rows. I need to allow the user to do a
>query
> such as is shown below. I have full text search enabled on this database,
> and have built a text search catalog for it. The problem is, that I keep
> getting timeouts on the query. Granted, I can increase the timout value
> to a
> value that works, but I need this to come back fairly quick. I need
> advice
> on how to set up this application. Think of eBay. You can search on any
> term. They have to have millions of rows in their database also. How do
> they return results so quick? They have to be doing very similar query
> logic?
> Select * From [Table] Where ([Field1] + [Field2] Like '%term1%')
> AND ([Field1] + [Field2] Like
> '%term2%')|||Oh, I assumed that 'Like' utilized the full text engine. Maybe I'm wrong.
I'll try the other two verbs and see what happens.
"JT" wrote:

> Does the LIKE operator utilize the full-text search engine? Perhaps you be
> using the CONTAINS and FREETEXT functions instead.
> "Brian Kitt" <BrianKitt@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:88ECA16B-12D3-4AE9-ABDB-E666A633F381@.microsoft.com...
>
>|||Perhaps you're not taking advantage of the full text search with the
LIKE and the concatenated columns.
Try using FREETEXT instead of LIKE
... where ( FREETEXT (Field1, 'term1') or FREETEXT(Field2, 'term1') )
and ( FREETEXT (Field1, 'term2') or FREETEXT(Field2, 'term2') )
Brian Kitt wrote:
> I have a table with 2 million + rows. I need to allow the user to do a qu
ery
> such as is shown below. I have full text search enabled on this database,
> and have built a text search catalog for it. The problem is, that I keep
> getting timeouts on the query. Granted, I can increase the timout value t
o a
> value that works, but I need this to come back fairly quick. I need advic
e
> on how to set up this application. Think of eBay. You can search on any
> term. They have to have millions of rows in their database also. How do
> they return results so quick? They have to be doing very similar query lo
gic?
> Select * From [Table] Where ([Field1] + [Field2] Like '%term1%')
> AND ([Field1] + [Field2] Like '%term2%')[/colo
r]|||Even with the full-text search functioning, you may not get the crisp
response time you are looking for. After all, eBay has more processing power
at their disposal than 95% of us do.
"Brian Kitt" <BrianKitt@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Oh, I assumed that 'Like' utilized the full text engine. Maybe I'm wrong.
> I'll try the other two verbs and see what happens.
> "JT" wrote:
>|||Brian,
I can assure that T-SQL LIKE does NOT use the same technology as the
Full-Text Search (FTS) predicates of CONTAINS or FREETEXT !!
-- John
SQL Full Text Search Blog
http://spaces.msn.com/members/jtkane/
"Brian Kitt" <BrianKitt@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Oh, I assumed that 'Like' utilized the full text engine. Maybe I'm wrong.
> I'll try the other two verbs and see what happens.
> "JT" wrote:
>|||Brian,
While you may not have the processing power of eBay, you can get good
performance out of FTS with a bit of tuning on both the FT Indexing (Change
Tracking with Update Index in Background) and with using CONTAINSTABLE or
FREETEXTTABLE with the Top_N_Rank parameter and limiting your results to the
top 2000 by RANK, for example:
SELECT TOP 200 T.* FROM TableWithFTColumn as T,
CONTAINSTABLE(TableWIthFTColumn,*,'John'
,300) as CT
WHERE T.key=CT.key AND T.a > 5
ORDER BY CT.rank
Where 300 is the Top_N_by_RANK value. See KB artilce 240833 "FIX: Full-Text
Search Performance Improved via Support for TOP" at
http://support.microsoft.com//defau...kb;EN-US;240833 for more
details. Also, review SQL Server 200 Books Online (BOL) title "Full-text
Search Recommendations" for more tips!
Regards,
John
--
SQL Full Text Search Blog
http://spaces.msn.com/members/jtkane/
"JT" <someone@.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Even with the full-text search functioning, you may not get the crisp
> response time you are looking for. After all, eBay has more processing
> power at their disposal than 95% of us do.
> "Brian Kitt" <BrianKitt@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:13DF6525-9595-41EB-B413-844EC57A09F2@.microsoft.com...
>