Increasing speed of queries on memo fields in SQL Server 6.5

[Mikal]

I am trying to use the wildcard character(%) to query on a text field in a large SQL Server 6.5 table and am experiencing very poor performance. Are there any special indexes or techniques I can use to increase performance in this type of query? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[TrO]

Unfortunately I don't know the answer, but I wanted you to know that I went and asked several people to join this forum who may know the answer. So we'll see what happens.

 

[GianlucaHotz]

As for SQL Server 6.5 you have no straight solutions to improve performances. You can either buy a third party product to supply full-text indexing functionalities or you can try to develop similar functionalities yourself. SQL Server 7.0 has full-text indexing out of the box, you may want to have a look at it.

 

[Mikal]

Thanks, I will check into SQL Server 7.0