Re: Best Practice - Omit "The" and other common words Text Input for Search and another question

2005-11-13 Thread George Abraham
Hi Les, I would also look at enabling full-text search on (I am assuming) SQL Server and using the CONTAINS clause. You might still have to filter out the 'The', but it might also help on other situations. George On 11/12/05, Adrian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If "The" is the only word

RE: Best Practice - Omit "The" and other common words Text Input for Search and another question

2005-11-12 Thread Adrian Lynch
If "The" is the only word causing you problems, look for it at the beginning of the search(it would have to be the beginning as you don't want to take it from the middle of a string) term and remove it before it gets passed to SQL. Ade -Original Message- From: Les Mizzell [mailto:[EMAIL P

Re: Best Practice - Omit ""The"" and other common words Text Input for Search and another question

2005-11-11 Thread Robert Munn
how about a full-text catalog? Is this MS SQL Server? Another option is to do the search in Verity and then merge the search results with a database query using the id from the verity collection. Slower than just SQL alone, but it will get you all the results. >Let's say I'm searching book ti