I want to thank James Travis for his original and excellent work and to Razvan Socol for alerting about a similar problem that led me to improve James' code.
The problem is that when searching for a word that is split between two 8kb blocks, James' code would ignore it. The solution is to look for the parts in the adjacent blocks. This code works for words up to 10 chars but the code can be changed to allow longer words.
I included the code from James Travis to test the bug and also created a new version that returns the number of occurences.
The original code from James Travis:
http://www.planet-source-code.com/vb/scripts/showcode.asp?lngWId=5&txtCodeId=414
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Some nice code. Could have rounded it of a little more: 1) Could have a column heading depending what was seached on. Would be nice to enhance it to return table column names as well. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Hi Anton, Thank you, I appreciate your feedback. I changed the code so that the column has a name and created a 2nd version with the number of ocurrences. The only way to get the searched string as part of the column name would be with dynamic SQL and to get the first returned row with the searched string would be with a UNION before the main SELECT. The first one would have a performance degradation and the second could be problematic if the output table is to be used from another sp. Still, there are many possibilities.
Peace, Joseph Gama (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
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