Full Text Search Single Digit Problem

Full text "...searches against text data in full-text indexes by operating on words and phrases based on rules of a particular language..." but "9" is no word or phrase so in my opinion you should read more about that at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms142547.aspx

I am thinking the problem should be in the filter. Ootherwise it could be a data type.

 

ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[FullTextSearch]
      @Phrase varchar(200)

AS
	  SET NOCOUNT ON
      DECLARE @All nvarchar(200)
      DECLARE @FirstPart nvarchar(100)
      DECLARE @SecondPart nvarchar(100)
      DECLARE @Cut int
      DECLARE @SinglePartSearch bit

      SET @SinglePartSearch = 1 
      SET @Cut = charindex('+', @Phrase)
      IF @Cut > 0 
	  BEGIN
            SET @SinglePartSearch = 0
            SET @FirstPart =  '"' + left(@Phrase,(@Cut - 1)) + '*" AND '
            SET @SecondPart = '"' + rtrim(substring(@Phrase,(@Cut+1), 100)) + '*"'
	  END

           
      CREATE TABLE #Results
      (
            RecordType int,
            RecordID int,
            Contact varchar(150),
            Address1 varchar(300),
            Address2 varchar(300),
            Address3 varchar(300),
            Address4 varchar(300),
            Address5 varchar(300),
            Address6 varchar(300),
            Tel1 varchar(50),
            Tel2 varchar(50),
            Tel3 varchar(50),
            Tel4 varchar(50),
            Tel5 varchar(50)
      )
      
      IF @SinglePartSearch = 1
            SET @All =  '"' + @Phrase + '*"'
      ELSE
            SET @All = @FirstPart + @SecondPart

      -- Applicant RecordType 1 
      INSERT INTO #Results 
      SELECT 1, Reference, ISNULL(Salutation, '') + ' ' + ISNULL(Forename, '') + ' ' + ISNULL(Surname, '') AS Contact, Address1, Address2, Address3, Address4, Address5, Address6, Phone1, Phone2, Phone3, Phone4,Phone5 FROM Applicant
      WHERE CONTAINS(Salutation, Forename, Surname, Address1, Address2, Address3, Address4, Address5, Address6, Phone1, Phone2, Phone3, Phone4, Phone5 or @All)

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If that is the case then why would 19 18 etc work fine.

Can you send the table schema please? Sp_help [Applicant]

Because they are not a single character. try search a or b or c - as far as I know nothing would be returned - same thing. Again, full text search is a "word" or "phrase" search engine not single number/character search.

a.b.c work fine

Maybe lcohan is right. But like you pointed out with the a, b, c it worked. To completely eliminate it, try the following.

Sorely if you converted the string to more than one character it will be a word/phrase

ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[FullTextSearch]
      @Phrase varchar(200)

AS
	  SET NOCOUNT ON
      DECLARE @All nvarchar(200)
      DECLARE @FirstPart nvarchar(100)
      DECLARE @SecondPart nvarchar(100)
      DECLARE @Cut int
      DECLARE @SinglePartSearch bit

      SET @SinglePartSearch = 1 
      SET @Cut = charindex('+', @Phrase)
      IF @Cut > 0 
	  BEGIN
            SET @SinglePartSearch = 0
            SET @FirstPart =  '"' + left(@Phrase,(@Cut - 1)) + '*" AND '
            SET @SecondPart = '"' + rtrim(substring(@Phrase,(@Cut+1), 100)) + '*"'
	  END

           
      CREATE TABLE #Results
      (
            RecordType int,
            RecordID int,
            Contact varchar(150),
            Address1 varchar(300),
            Address2 varchar(300),
            Address3 varchar(300),
            Address4 varchar(300),
            Address5 varchar(300),
            Address6 varchar(300),
            Tel1 varchar(50),
            Tel2 varchar(50),
            Tel3 varchar(50),
            Tel4 varchar(50),
            Tel5 varchar(50)
      )
      
      IF @SinglePartSearch = 1
            SET @All =  '"' + CHAR(32) + @Phrase + '*"'
      ELSE
            SET @All = @FirstPart + @SecondPart

      -- Applicant RecordType 1 
      INSERT INTO #Results 
      SELECT 1, Reference, ISNULL(Salutation, '') + ' ' + ISNULL(Forename, '') + ' ' + ISNULL(Surname, '') AS Contact, Address1, Address2, Address3, Address4, Address5, Address6, Phone1, Phone2, Phone3, Phone4,Phone5 FROM Applicant
      WHERE CONTAINS(Salutation, Forename, Surname, Address1, Address2, Address3, Address4, Address5, Address6, Phone1, Phone2, Phone3, Phone4, Phone5 or @All)

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you can also check all stopwords for all languages by:

select * from sys.fulltext_system_stopwords

Please do note that "Full-text queries perform linguistic searches against text data in full-text indexes by operating on words and phrases based on rules of a particular language such as English "

The code with char(32) does not work, I cant see the number 9 being in a noise file. This is very strange

I checked the noise file again, it had the digits in them, it is SQL server 2005 by the way (realised I am in 2008 thread) I rebuilt the index but it is still exactly the same

Did you removed the 9 from the noise file for the language you are testing on?

For SQL 2005 they should be located on your SQL server box at:
 C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\FTData

 If you did that, rebuilt your full text and is not working then I would take it with Microsoft.