On 6/13/07, James Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As a last resort this procedure does the following... > > SET @searchTerm = '%' + REPLACE(@searchTerm,' ','%') + '%'; > .. > .. > .. > AND (Title LIKE @searchTerm OR ArtistName LIKE @searchTerm) > > So that is someone searches for 'friends series 7' it is first turned into > '%friends%series%7%' which will match the title 'friends complete series - > 7' (for example). This is however, very slow. Is there a way to speed up > this sort of LIKE matching? > > -- > Jay
Jay, If you are trying to do a keyword search, it would be better to use SQL Server's Full Text Search capability instead of using LIKE. Dean -- __________________________________________ Dean Lawrence, CIO/Partner Internet Data Technology 888.GET.IDT1 ext. 701 * fax: 888.438.4381 http://www.idatatech.com/ Corporate Internet Development and Marketing Specialists ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Deploy Web Applications Quickly across the enterprise with ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2 Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:281042 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
