Re: Still wondering

ContainsTable is faster than Contains because
1) it only returns two columns key and rank
2) you can limit the number of results returned by the full-text search
engine by the top_n_by_rank parameter.

If you join it against the base table without using the top_n_by_rank
parameter there are no significant performance improvements.

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"rn" <anonymous@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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What was the verdict on the two ways to perform the full-text query,
contains vs. containstable?

It seemed the original poster found that containstable worked faster and
wanted to know if was essentially the same query. The question also was
why did the containstable work faster.

It didn't seem like those two questions were really answered. It seemed
like the original poster had found a faster way to do the query, and
then the discussion went on to why the contains method was slow and some
other workarounds. What was wrong with the containstable method?

Should we all use constainstable instead of contains? Is there a flaw
in the query optimizer?

Can we keep this thread going? It seems important.



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