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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). Integrated Full-Text Search uses text-aware relational queries to provide your users with fast access to content. Whether you want to set up an enterprise-wide Internet or intranet search engine or create less ambitious natural-language search applications, this book will teach you how to get the most out of SQL Server 2008 Integrated Full-Text Search: Introducing powerful Integrated Full-Text Search features in SQL Server such as the FREETEXT and CONTAINS predicates, custom thesauruses, and stop lists Showing you how to optimize full-text query performance through features like full-text indexes and iFilters Providing examples that help you understand and apply the power of Integrated Full-Text Search in your daily projects What you'll learn Harness the power of iFTS for your applications. Administer iFTS catalogs and indexes. Use new iFTS features such as stop lists and iFTS-based dynamic management functions. Optimize and tune iFTS queries. Implement language-aware, natural-language searches for data. Simplify searches of structured and unstructured content. Who this book is for
The audience for this book includes SQL Server SQL and Transact-SQL developers, and also .NET developers, who want to take advantage of the new Integrated Full-Text Search (iFTS) functionality available in SQL Server 2008.
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You have gotten the job, now you need to hone your skills in these tough competitive times. The Apress Pro series expands your skills and expertise in exactly the areas you need. Master the content of a Pro book, and you will always be able to get the job done in a professional development project. Written by experts in their field, Pro series books from Apress give you the hard-won solutions to problems you will face in your professional programming career. Related Titles Beginning SQL Server 2008 for Developers: From Novice to Professional Accelerated SQL Server 2008 Pro SQL Server 2008 XML Pro SQL Server 2008 Relational Database Design and Implementation
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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. Whether you want to set up an enterprise?wide Internet or intranet search engine or create less ambitious natural?language search applications, this book will teach you how to get the most out of SQL Server 2008 iFTS: Introducing powerful iFTS features in SQL Server, such as the FREETEXT and CONTAINS predicates, custom thesauruses, and stop lists Showing you how to optimize full?text query performance through features like full?text indexes and iFilters Providing examples that help you understand and apply the power of?iFTS in your daily projects What you?ll learn Harness the power of iFTS for your applicationsAdminister iFTS catalogs and indexesUse new iFTS features such as stop lists and iFTS?based dynamic management functionsOptimize and tune iFTS queriesImplement language?aware, natural?language searches for dataSimplify searches of structured and unstructured content Who this book is for
The audience for this book includes SQL Server, SQL and Transact-SQL developers, and also .NET developers, who want to take advantage of the integrated full-text search (iFTS) functionality available in SQL Server 2008.
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Whether a business wants to set up an enterprise-wide Internet or intranet search engine or create less ambitious natural-language search applications, this book will teach programmers how to get the most out of SQL Server 2008.
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The only book on the market to fully cover SQL Server 2008a (TM)s Full-Text Search, a feature becoming increasingly important in the face of the growing need to manage large volumes of XML, PDF, and other free-format, digital data. Full-Text Search is so important, that one Microsoft Product Manager refers to it as a oethe largest and most challenging improvementa in SQL Server 2008. Hillary Cotter and Michael Colesa (TM) book will be the go-to book for developers wishing to take advance of this increasingly key feature in SQL Server.