Retrieving more recent records

  • Hello friends  .

     please solve my problem, i am using sql server 7 ,in that

    i have a table called  Metadata

    columns are slno,title,creator,subject,entrydate ...

    slno is primary key.

    entrydate contains date and time .

    table contains more than 80,000 records.

     i want to retrieve most recent records (say within 90 days or 120 days).and

     i want to search some strings say 'english' in results of aboue query using

     contains ( like contains(*,'english') ) or  freetext only.

     please help ....how to write queryyyyyyy

  • Maybe I don't fully understand your requirement, but start with something like:

     

    Select title, creator, subject, entrydate from metadeta

    where entrydate>GetDate()-90 and subject like '%english%'

     

    Note the % used for wildcard symbol, not *

    Hope this helps

    Elliott

  • Thank you for Your reply.

    Your query is similar to our requirements But here you are searching only in

    subject column,but  i have to  search in all columns using contains or using

    Freetext.

     But if i use following query ,it is giving 0 results.

     Select entrydate,creator from metadata where entrydate>GetDate()-90 and contains(*,'%english%')

    but if i use yours query

    Select title, creator, subject, entrydate from metadeta where entrydate>GetDate()-90 and subject like '%english%'

    it wil give 200 records.

     

     

  • Pradeep,

    Your query should work if the referenced columns are indexed for full-text.  By way of refinement, you may want to specifically list the columns of interest ('ColumnA', 'ColumnF', ColumnT', etc.) rather than using the *.  This would be more efficient and also you wouldn't have to set the non-relevant columns to fulltext searching.

    Elliott

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