Sharepoint 2010 use fulltextsearch query to search user profile

Question

Hello all,
I have a problem with FullTextSearch query for user profile:
I have the query below:
SELECT PictureURL, TitleOfPersonal, PersonalTitle,  Lastname, Firstname, AccountName, JobTitle, Department, workemail, EmployeeID, Empid, Exten, LeftDate, JoinDate
FROM SCOPE() WHERE "scope"='People' AND (Department = 'CEO Office' OR Department = 'Marketing & Business Development Department' OR Department = 'Medical Department' OR Department = 'Finance Department' OR Department = 'COO Office' OR Department
= 'Document Management & Translation Department') AND  empID != '' ORDER BY LastName
But this query does not return any result! 
Could someone help me on this ?
Thank you very much !

Answer 1

Hi,
According to your post, my understanding is that you want to search user profile using FullTextSqlQuery.
Please try to use the query below:
SELECT PictureURL, TitleOfPersonal, PersonalTitle, Lastname, Firstname, AccountName, JobTitle, Department, workemail, EmployeeID, Empid, Exten, LeftDate, JoinDate
FROM SCOPE() WHERE "scope"='People'
If the query works, please use CONTAINS(DEPARTMENT,'<value>') instead of
Department = '<value>' .
Here is a discussion for you to take a look at.
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/880086f7-5a54-454b-80c5-a676df19d83c/sharepoint-2010-fulltextsqlquery-query-problem-with-where-condition?forum=sharepointdevelopmentprevious
If there still no result returns, please provide more code for further research.
Best Regards
Dennis Guo
TechNet Community Support