作者：Hilary Cotter, Michael Coles
出版日期：December 2, 2008
出版社：Apress
页数：312
ISBN：ISBN-10: 1430215941 ISBN-13: 978-1430215943
文件格式：PDF

Product Description
Businesses today want actionable insights into their data—they wanttheir data to reveal itself to them in a natural and user–friendlyform. What could be more natural than human language? Natural–languagesearch is at the center of a storm of ever–increasing web–driven demandfor human–computer communication and information access. SQL Server2008 provides the tools to take advantage of the features of itsbuilt–in enterprise–level natural–language search engine in the form ofIntegrated Full–Text Search (iFTS). Integrated Full–Text Search usestext–aware relational queries to provide your users with fast access tocontent. Whether you want to set up an enterprise–wide Internet orintranet search engine or create less ambitious natural–language searchapplications, this book will teach you how to get the most out of SQLServer 2008 Integrated Full–Text Search:Introducing powerful Integrated Full–Text Search features in SQLServer such as the FREETEXT and CONTAINS predicates, customthesauruses, and stop listsShowing you how to optimize full–text query performance through features like full–text indexes and iFiltersProviding examples that help you understand and apply the power of Integrated Full–Text Search in your daily projectsWhat you’ll learnHarness the power of iFTS for your applications.Administer iFTS catalogs and indexes.Use new iFTS features such as stop lists and iFTS–based dynamic management functions.Optimize and tune iFTS queries.Implement language–aware, natural–language searches for data.Simplify searches of structured and unstructured content.Who is this book for?The audience for this book includes SQL Server SQL and Transact–SQLdevelopers, and also .NET developers, who want to take advantage of thenew Integrated Full–Text Search (iFTS) functionality available in SQLServer 2008.
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About the Author
Hilary Cotter has been involved in IT for 19 years. He has worked as aweb and database consultant specializing in search solutions, and hehas helped several major sites tune their e-commerce sites. Hilary hasanswered over 6,000 questions on the Microsoft newsgroups and foundedwith Chris Crowe, IIS MVP, both http://www.iisfaq.com, the world’slargest resource for information on Internet Information Server, andhttp://www.indexserverfaq.com, which averages 1.2 million hits permonth. In 2001, Microsoft recognized him with a Microsoft SQL ServerMVP award. Hilary received his bachelor’s of applied science degree inmechanical engineering from the University of Toronto. He subsequentlystudied economics at the University of Calgary and computer science atthe University of California, Berkeley.
Michael Coles has over a decade’s experience designing andadministering SQL Server databases. A prolific writer of articles onall aspects of SQL Server, particularly on the expert use of T–SQL, heholds MCDBA and MCP certifications. He received a bachelor’s of science(magna cum laude) in information technology from AmericanIntercontinental University. A member of the United States ArmyReserve, he was activated for two years following 9/11.