Quoted literal strings won't force a phrase match

Hello all,

From what I've read, SQL Server is supposed to do a phrase match when
you do a full text search that contains quoted literal strings. So,
for example, if I did a full text search on the phrase "time out" and
I put it in quotes, it's supposed to search for the full phrase "time
out" and not just look for rows that contain the words "time" or
"out." However, this isn't working for me.

Here is the query that I'm using :

SELECT *
FROM Content_Items ci
INNER JOIN FREETEXTTABLE(Content_Items, hed, '"time out"') AS ft
ON ci.contentItemId = ft.[KEY]
ORDER BY ft.RANK DESC

What's it's doing is this : it's returning a bunch of rows that have
the words "time" or "out" in the column called hed. It's also
returning rows that have the full phrase "time out", but it's giving
those rows the same rank as rows that only contain the word "time."
In this case, that rank is 180.

Is there anything else I should be doing in my query, or is there some
configuration option I should have turned on?

Thanks.

Ok, I've made some progress on this problem. Apparently SQL Server is
ignoring noise words in my phrase match.

For example, I ran this query :

SELECT *
FROM Content_Items ci
INNER JOIN FREETEXTTABLE(Content_Items, hed, '"time capsule"') AS ft
ON ci.contentItemId = ft.[KEY]
ORDER BY ft.RANK DESC

And it did exactly what it was supposed to do, since neither "time"
nor "capsule" is a noise word.

My impression was that noise words aren't stripped out of a full text
search if the search phrase is a quoted literal. Thus, my search for
"time out" should look for the full phrase "time out", and not just
the word "time."

Does anybody know why SQL Server is removing my noise word from the
phrase match?

On Jan 18, 12:49 pm, wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> From what I've read, SQL Server is supposed to do a phrase match when
> you do a full text search that contains quoted literal strings. So,
> for example, if I did a full text search on the phrase "time out" and
> I put it in quotes, it's supposed to search for the full phrase "time
> out" and not just look for rows that contain the words "time" or
> "out." However, this isn't working for me.
>
> Here is the query that I'm using :
>
> SELECT *
> FROM Content_Items ci
> INNER JOIN FREETEXTTABLE(Content_Items, hed, '"time out"') AS ft
> ON ci.contentItemId = ft.[KEY]
> ORDER BY ft.RANK DESC
>
> What's it's doing is this : it's returning a bunch of rows that have
> the words "time" or "out" in the column called hed. It's also
> returning rows that have the full phrase "time out", but it's giving
> those rows the same rank as rows that only contain the word "time."
> In this case, that rank is 180.
>
> Is there anything else I should be doing in my query, or is there some
> configuration option I should have turned on?
>
> Thanks.