[cfaussie] Re: Query Help

2007-08-29 Thread Dale Fraser
Scott Sent: Wednesday, 29 August 2007 11:51 PM To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Query Help Dale, '% cheese %' Seems to defeat the purpose of having a like, if you put spaces I would say that the %'s are no longer needed. Anyway I am still not sure what

[cfaussie] Re: Query Help

2007-08-29 Thread Dale Fraser
SQL Server 2005 Regards Dale Fraser http://dalefraser.blogspot.com From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charlie Arehart (lists account) Sent: Thursday, 30 August 2007 8:12 AM To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Query Help Dale

[cfaussie] Re: Query Help

2007-08-29 Thread Haikal Saadh
I know you know it's not normalised, but why not normalise? That aside, SQL Server doesn't seem to like to do too many LIKE queries, in my experience. But as the others have suggested, you might want to look into it's full text indexing capabilities. Dale Fraser wrote: I have a database

[cfaussie] Re: Query Help

2007-08-29 Thread Blair McKenzie
I agree with the others. Your problem is a text book example of what normalising is for. Having tags represented in a separate table allows you to find all the items with a specific tag or find all tags on a specific item with one lightening quick select. Blair On 8/30/07, Haikal Saadh [EMAIL

[cfaussie] Re: Query Help

2007-08-29 Thread Charlie Arehart \(lists account\)
] Re: Query Help SQL Server 2005 Regards Dale Fraser http://dalefraser.blogspot.com From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charlie Arehart (lists account) Sent: Thursday, 30 August 2007 8:12 AM To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Query

[cfaussie] Re: Query Help

2007-08-29 Thread Dale Fraser
account) Sent: Thursday, 30 August 2007 1:59 PM To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Query Help OK, so have you considered looking into its text indexing features, based on this discussion? :-) /charlie _ From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL