Most of the articles that I presented so far for database development have been centered around the exact Microsoft T-SQL syntax to perform a certain operation. At the University of Rhode Island, I learnt how to program in Pascal before typing in my first ANSI SQL statement. In short, I will always be some type of developer in my heart. However, many people do not come from a computer science and math background. The SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) has menus and dialog boxes to achieve many of the same…
Tag: DROP INDEX
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…