For instance, my query is like the following using SQL Server 2005:
SELECT * FROM Table WHERE FREETEXT(SearchField, 'c#')
I have a full text index defined to use the column SearchField which returns results when using:
SELECT * FROM Table WHERE SearchField LIKE '%c#%'
I believe # is a special letter, so how do I allow FREETEXT to work correctly for the query above?
The # char is indexed as punctuation and therefore ignored, so it looks like we'll remove the letter C from our word indexing ignore lists.
Tested it locally after doing that and rebuilding the indexes and I get results!
Looking at using a different word breaker language on the indexed column, so that those special characters aren't ignored.
EDIT: I also found this information:
Quoting a much-replicated help page about Indexing Service query language:
As far as I know, full text search in
MSSQL
is also done by the Indexing Service, so this might help.