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Author Question about Proximity (NEARness) with Full Text Indexing on SQL Server 7
kellygreer1

2005-08-01, 11:23 am

Hello group,

Does anyone know how near a word needs to be to another word to be
included in the results of a CONTAINS search that uses NEAR? Is this
setting adjustable? Is is stored in the registry? INI or config file?

I'm using SQL Server 7 SP3.

Thanks,
Kelly Greer
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Hilary Cotter

2005-08-01, 1:23 pm

Its hardcoded. I believe after 50 words the rank drops off to 0. I also
believe that after 1366 (or some large number of words like that) you will
no longer get a hit.

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"kellygreer1" <kellygreer1@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1122912214.203288.58290@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hello group,
>
> Does anyone know how near a word needs to be to another word to be
> included in the results of a CONTAINS search that uses NEAR? Is this
> setting adjustable? Is is stored in the registry? INI or config file?
>
> I'm using SQL Server 7 SP3.
>
> Thanks,
> Kelly Greer
> KellyGreer1@nospam.com
> replace nospam with yahoo
>



John Kane

2005-08-01, 8:24 pm

Kelly,
Q. Does anyone know how near a word needs to be to another word to be
included in the results of a CONTAINS search that uses NEAR?
A. Within 50 non-noise words. Additionally, end-of-sentence and
end-of-paragraph also have an effect on the "nearness" of one word or phrase
to another word or phrase.

Q. Is this setting adjustable?
A. No. This is hard-coded.

Q. Is it stored in the registry? INI or config file?
A. No and No. Although, I would hope in some future SQL Server version
(post-SQL Server 2005) that this would be possible, IMHO.

Regards,
John
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"kellygreer1" <kellygreer1@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1122912214.203288.58290@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hello group,
>
> Does anyone know how near a word needs to be to another word to be
> included in the results of a CONTAINS search that uses NEAR? Is this
> setting adjustable? Is is stored in the registry? INI or config file?
>
> I'm using SQL Server 7 SP3.
>
> Thanks,
> Kelly Greer
> KellyGreer1@nospam.com
> replace nospam with yahoo
>



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