Custom proximity search is a new feature introduced in SQL Server 2012 Full-Text Search. It's facilitated using the NEAR operator, allowing it to be used in the CONTAINS predicate or CONTAINSTABLE ...

We have a full-text catalog on a SQL 2000 SP4 box (Windows 2000) that contains a big list of groceries. When I search for "1%" using CONTAINSTABLE, I only get results that match "1". Is there anyway ...

With the official release of Microsoft's latest database offering, let's see what was improved and what still needs some work ...

Just wondering if anyone has had to do this and what you thought the best way was?<BR><BR>It's for a customer services type program so it's holding the standard sort of data you'd have on people.

Microsoft is making available in preview form on August 21 two new Azure cloud services: A NoSQL database service and a full-text search service. The Azure DocumentDB NoSQL service was built by ...