Custom proximity search is a new feature introduced in SQL Server 2012 Full-Text Search. It's facilitated using the NEAR operator, allowing it to be used in the CONTAINS predicate or CONTAINSTABLE ...

where @searchPhraseis currently an NVARCHAR(1000) and holds the result of a function call that puts together the full search phrase. This all works fine as is but a long search string will increase ...

Just wondering if anyone has had to do this and what you thought the best way was?<BR><BR>It's for a customer services type program so it's holding the standard sort of data you'd have on people.

Microsoft is making available in preview form on August 21 two new Azure cloud services: A NoSQL database service and a full-text search service. The Azure DocumentDB NoSQL service was built by ...