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How can I tell if a full-text index is being used?

It's possible to tell how much a rowstore index is used, but what about full-text? I could find nothing in any GUI or DMV. Even dbatools doesn't support it. I've inherited a server that has a few full-...
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Is there a way stop the "." (period) acting as a word breaker in FullText Indexes?

I know the period is a word breaker however I want to be able to search the fulltext catalog for a field containing the phrase "ASP.Net" or similar. Currently my search returns 'ASP' and 'Net' without ...
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Full text search using words stored in another table

Is there a way to do a full-text search using words stored in another table? This is my scenario: Table_A contains phrases entered by users in field "UserInput" (and other stuff). I have a full-...
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FULLTEXT CONTAINS search returns no results in SQL SERVER 2014 with multiple search terms

When I try to use multiple search terms in a CONTAINS clause I get no results. SELECT * FROM dbo.Address WHERE CONTAINS([Address].*,'"Detroit"') AND CONTAINS([Address].*,'"48226"') OPTION(...
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T-SQL Fulltext search by first word

How can I perform "starts with" logic with full text search? For example there is a Contains logic : WHERE contains(Note,' "*word*" ') I guess I need search by first word in the string, but how can ...
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FreeTextTable - Query as a set operation vs. having to cursor

Does anyone know if it is possible to join to a free text table to query for many search terms in one operation vs. having to cursor over? For example if I have a function that gets the top 1 closest ...
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How can I perform a full-text CONTAINS call across a list of phrases?

I have a list of words/phrases in a table phrases. I have another table with a full-text catalog indexing the description column. I want to populate a table results with a record for each phrase, and ...
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Can I Parse and/or include "And" in my SQL Statement for a full text index?

So I have a query that looks at a full text index like this: SELECT * FROM Table1 q INNER JOIN CONTAINSTABLE(Table1,TableField, @Keywords) search ON q.Key = search.[KEY] Now @Keywords can ...
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Keyword Search a single SQL Server table for multiple search terms and create a new table from results?

I am not a database administrator. Most of my experience is with MySQL. However I think what I want to do is in the realm of possibility. I want to text query a single large table in a SQL Server ...
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SQL Server Full-Text Search: combining proximity term and thesaurus

Scenario I am developing a full-text search over a products table. The full-text indexed field of th table contains a brief description of the product, the name of the category and the product code. ...
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Searching for keywords in fulltext indexes using the "contains" function

Lets assume "and" is not a stopword, in my language it should not be. How do I search for it using the contains function? It is a keyword, but how do I escape the keywordness? No luck with: SELECT ...
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Fulltext search limiting users possibilities

We have a web site with a search box. The search uses a fulltext index column. However, we just cant feed the text the user has input into this stored procedure. CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[SearchPages] ...
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SQL Server Full-Text Indexer with stoplists/stopwords

As I'm working on a graduate project (Textmining with SQL Server 2012 Semantic Search) I run into a situation where I need to post a question on this website, hoping someone can help me. This ...
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