How to use like condition with multiple values in sql server 2005?

Question

I need to filter out records based on some text matching in nvarchar(1000) column. Table has more than 400 thousands records and growing. For now, I am using Like condition:

Answer 1

If you can create a FULLTEXT INDEX on that column of your table (that assumes a lot of research on performance and space), then you are probably going to see a big improvement on performance on text matching. You can go to this link to see what FULLTEXT SEARCH is and this link to see how to create a FULLTEXT INDEX.