>Hi everybody,
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>I'm thinking of writing an SP that would attempt to seach mutltiple fields by each word in a phrase. Here is a part I'm not sure how to handle.
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>Say, I pass "Name1 Name2" and I need to create a query like this
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>select ... from ... where (field1 like "Name1%" or field2 like "Name1%" etc.) and (field1 like "Name2" or ...)
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>I can get a list of words into table valued function, but does it mean I would have to create a dynamic SQL? In this case I don't need an SP, I guess.
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>Since I would probably have just few words (less than 4, I guess) I may try to code with IF statements...
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>Appreciate your ideas.
>
>Thanks in advance.

If you use table function why not just JOIN it?

SELECT YoueTable.*
FROM YourTable
INNER JOIN dbo.SomeFunction('List here') Tbl1 ON YourTable.Field1 LIKE Tbl1.Field+'%' OR
                                                 YourTable.Field2 LIKE Tbl1.Field+'%'

But keep in mind that if more than one word is found from Tbl1 you could get duplicated records.