Full-Text Search – Part 1

Today, I want to go over why text searching for patterns is an expensive query operation. I am going to create a [WILD LIFE] database that contains a table called [ANIMALS]. A identity column called [ID] will be populated by the system automatically and a [NAME] column will be loaded with 445 animals names that I grabbed from WIKIPEDIA. The idea is to search for animals that have a root word in common. The snippet below creates the database and table. The full SQL script including insert statements is at…