Giving precedence/weight to a column using FREETEXTTABLE

Question

I am using SQL Server Full Text Search, with the keyword FREETEXTTABLE to return a table of results based on a few columns, searching for a keyword.

Now I have 2 mai

Answer 1

You'll need to use 2 queries with a union, providing a 'weight' of your own, something like this:

select  [key], sum(rnk) as weightRank
from
        (
            select Rank * 2.0 as rnk, [key] from freetexttable(tableName,Title,'free text string')
            union all
            select Rank * 1.0 as rnk, [key] from freetexttable(tableName,Description,'free text string')
        ) as t
group by [key]