Businesses today want actionable insights into their data—they want their data to reveal itself to them in a natural and user–friendly form. What could be more natural than human language? Natural–language search is at the center of a storm of ever–increasing web–driven demand for human–computer communication and information access. SQL Server 2008 provides the tools to take advantage of the features of its built–in enterprise–level natural–language search engine in the form of integrated full–text search (iFTS). iFTS uses text–aware relational queries to provide your users with fast access to content | Pro Full-Text Search in SQL Server 2008 Michael Coles with Hilary Cotter Apress Pro Full-Text Search in SQL Server 2008 Copyright 2009 by Michael Coles and Hilary Cotter All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical including photocopying recording or by any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of the copyright owner and the publisher. ISBN-13 pbk 978-1-4302-1594-3 ISBN-13 electronic 978-1-4302-1595-0 Printed and bound in the United States of America 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Trademarked names may appear in this book. Rather than use a trademark symbol with every occurrence of a trademarked name we use the names only in an editorial fashion and to the benefit of the trademark owner with no intention of infringement of the trademark. Lead Editor Jonathan Gennick Technical Reviewer Steve Jones Editorial Board Clay Andres Steve Anglin Mark Beckner Ewan Buckingham Tony Campbell Gary Cornell Jonathan Gennick Michelle Lowman Matthew Moodie Jeffrey Pepper Frank Pohlmann Ben Renow-Clarke Dominic Shakeshaft Matt Wade Tom Welsh Project Manager Denise Santoro Lincoln Copy Editor Benjamin Berg Associate Production Director Kari Brooks-Copony Production Editor Laura Esterman Compositor Artist Octal Publishing Inc. Proofreader Patrick Vincent Indexer Broccoli Information Management Cover Designer Kurt Krames Manufacturing Director Tom Debolski Distributed to the book trade worldwide by Springer-Verlag New York Inc. 233 Spring Street 6th Floor New York NY 10013. Phone 1-800-SPRINGER fax 201-348-4505 e-mail orders-ny@ or visit http www. . For information on translations please contact Apress directly at 2855 Telegraph Avenue Suite 600 Berkeley CA 94705. Phone 510-549-5930 fax 510-549-5939 e-mail info@ or visit http . Apress and friends of ED books may be purchased in bulk for academic corporate or promotional .
