FullText index blocking word contains with (S)

Question

Hi,
My table column have "school(s)" value.
I have created full text index for this table.
And executing the below query first query not returning any records and second query returning records.
select * from TABLENAME WHERE CONTAINS(ColumName, '"school(S)"') 
select * from TABLENAME WHERE CONTAINS(ColumName, '"school(s)"') 
Difference between both query is (S).
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Hi Radhakrishnan,
Full-text queries are not case-sensitive. For example, searching for "Aluminum" or "aluminum" returns the same results. Please refer to the article below:
Full-Text Search (SQL Server):http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms142571.aspx
I tried to repro this issue on my test environment, but it will return the expected reuslt. Here is the sample code for your reference, please see:
CREATE DATABASE FULL_SEARCH_TEST
USE [FULL_SEARCH_TEST]
Create Table FullText_Search
Id Int Primary Key Identity(1,1),
Name Nvarchar(50)
GO
INSERT INTO FullText_Search VALUES('school(s)')
INSERT INTO FullText_Search VALUES('Test1')
INSERT INTO FullText_Search VALUES('Test2')
SELECT * FROM FullText_Search
GO
CREATE FULLTEXT CATALOG FTSearch
GO
--Show all constraint names
SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS
CREATE FULLTEXT INDEX ON FullText_Search
(Name) KEY INDEX PK__FullText__3214EC077EC2BD1F
ON FTSearch;
SELECT * FROM FullText_Search WHERE CONTAINS(Name, '"school(s)"')
GO
SELECT * FROM FullText_Search WHERE CONTAINS(Name, '"school(S)"')
I would suggest you share your DDL+DML to us for further investigation. Don't forget to let us know the version of your SQL Server.
Regards,
Elvis Long
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