Full-text Search on Joined, Hierarchical Records in SQL Server 2008
问题 Probably a noob question, but I'll go for it nevertheless. For sake of example, I have a Person table, a Tag table and a ContactMethod table. A Person will have multiple Tag records and multiple ContactMethod records associated with them. I'd like to have a forgiving search which will search among several fields from each table. So I can find a person by their email (via ContactMethod), their name (via Person) or a tag assigned to them. As a complete noob to FTS, two approaches come to mind: