How to add more OR searches with CONTAINS Brings Query to Crawl?

Question

I have a simple query that relies on two full-text indexed tables, but it runs extremely slow when I have the CONTAINS combined with any additional

Answer 1

I would probably use the UNION. If you are really against it, you might try something like:

SELECT a.CollectionID
FROM collections a
  LEFT OUTER JOIN (SELECT CollectionID FROM collections WHERE CONTAINS(*, '"*fa*"')) c
    ON c.CollectionID = a.CollectionID
  LEFT OUTER JOIN (SELECT CollectionID FROM determinations WHERE CONTAINS(*, '"*fa*"')) d
    ON d.CollectionID = a.CollectionID
WHERE a.CollrTeam_Text LIKE '%fa%'
   OR c.CollectionID IS NOT NULL
   OR d.CollectionID IS NOT NULL