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Is it possible to run a full text search on an FTS-indexed column for all values in another table?
Conceptually it'd look like
select d.* from Docs d, Tags t where CONTAINS(d.fulltext, t.tagvalue)
I'm rather new to MSSQL FTS, though I know that the equivalent would work in postgres
select d.* from docs d, tags t where to_tsquery(t.tagvalue) @@ to_tsvector(d.fulltext)
Thanks for the help!
Yes, but not directly. You would have to build dynamic SQL strings, one row for every join set (pair of Docs and Tags rows), and then execute those strings. That's probably not practical.
In the FROM query, if you had 1,000 records in Docs and 1,000 records in Tags, the result set would have 1,000,000 rows. I'm assuming you knew that and just dummied up some quick T-SQL - obviously this wouldn't work in production.
