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● For text columns, the search term must match at least one of the tokenized terms to return a column entry as
a match.
● For string columns, the search term must match the entire string to return a column entry as a match.
Note: For more flexibility in a search query, you can use the supported wildcards % and *. Wildcards are
supported for both text and string columns.
You can perform an exact search by using the CONTAINS predicate with the EXACT option in the WHERE clause
of a SELECT statement. The exact search is the default search type. If you do not specify any search type in the
search query, an exact search will be executed automatically.
SELECT * FROM
WHERE CONTAINS (, , EXACT)
SELECT * FROM
WHERE CONTAINS (, )
--- Exact search will be executed implicitly.
SELECT * FROM
WHERE CONTAINS (, '"cats and dogs"')
--- Phrase search.
11.2.3 LINGUISTIC Search
A linguistic search finds all words that have the same word stem as the search term. It also finds all words for
which the search term is the word stem. In the SELECT statement of the full text search query, you can specify
the LINGUISTIC search type.
When you execute a linguistic search, the system has to determine the stems of the searched terms. It will look up
the stems in the stem dictionary. The hits in the stem dictionary point to all words in the word dictionary that have
this stem
You can call the linguistic search by using the CONTAINS predicate with the LINGUISTIC option in the WHERE
clause of a SELECT statement.
A linguistic search for produced will also find producing and produce.
Limitations
SELECT * FROM
WHERE CONTAINS (