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Hadi Fadlallah
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Manticore search: a continuation of the Sphinx search engine

September 14, 2020 by

In this article, we will be talking about Manticore Search, which is an open-source search engine first released in 2017 as a fork of the Sphinx search engine. We will try to describe this search engine briefly, mention some of its differences from the Sphinx search engine, and we will provide a step-by-step guide on how to build full-text indexes from SQL Server databases. Finally, we will show how to connect to the Manticore engine from the SQL Server management studio using a linked server object. In our previously published articles in this series, we talked briefly about the Sphinx search engine and how to create full-text indexes from SQL Server databases.

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Jefferson Elias

Hands on Full-Text Search in SQL Server

August 25, 2017 by

Introduction

In most cases, we will use clustered and non-clustered indexes to help a query go faster, but these kinds of indexes have their own limitations and cannot be used for fast text lookup. For instance, a LIKE operator will lead SQL Server to scan the whole table in order to pick up values that meet the expression next to this operator. This means it won’t be fast in every case, even if an index is created for considered column.

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Ed Pollack

Searching the SQL Server query plan cache

February 8, 2016 by

Whenever a query is executed in SQL Server, its execution plan, as well as some useful execution data are placed into the plan cache for future use. This information is a treasure trove of metrics that can allow some very useful insight into your server’s performance and resource consumption. Much of this information would be difficult or impossible to acquire otherwise.

Understanding how to access and use the metadata about query execution will provide us the tools we need to answer questions about our server and gain fascinating performance data. I’ve found myself spending more and more time writing, tweaking, and using queries against the plan cache lately and look forward to sharing these adventures with you!

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