Using Full-Text-Search in order to find partial words (SQL Server 2008)

Question

I'm trying to build a facebook like search for my software.

I'd like to query the table customers.

I've set up a FULLTEXT Index and tried the next query

SELECT * FROM Customer where CONTAINS(*,'*ann*')

The query does return all the customers named Ann, but it doesn't return all the customers name Anne.

Is there a way to create prefix search on SQL Server 2008 using FTS?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2962776/using-full-text-search-in-order-to-find-partial-words-sql-server-2008

Answer 1

I've found a solution to my problem. The query should be:

select * from Customers where contains(*, '"ann*"')

The quotes are the important part.