Syntax of search arguments

A search argument is the condition that you specify when searching for terms in text documents. It consists of search parameters and one or more search terms.

Examples of search arguments are given in Specifying SQL search arguments, and in a file called search. See the Additional search syntax examples.

The SQL scalar search functions that use search arguments are:

CONTAINS
This function uses a search argument to search for text in a particular text document. It returns the INTEGER value 1 if the document contains the text, or any relation specified in the search argument. Otherwise, it returns 0.
NUMBEROFMATCHES
This function uses a search argument to search in text documents and returns an INTEGER value indicating how many matches resulted per document.
SCORE
This function uses a search argument to search in text documents. It returns a value for each document found, indicating how well the found document is described by the search argument.
Note

You use the same syntax in the search arguments of the stored procedure search and the SQL Table-Valued Function.