Duh, ok in SQL 2005 you can fulltext index views which should allow this.
"Daniel Crichton" <msnews@worldofspack.com> wrote in message
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> Hilary, I think he meant doing something like this:
>
> create view test1 as
> select * from pubs.dbo.authors
> go
>
> select * from test1 where contains(*,'ringer')
>
> which won't work because the FTI is on the base table, not on the view.
>
> Dan
>
>
> "Hilary Cotter" <hilary.cotter@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> I'm confused. I can get this to work. In pubs, FTI the au_lname column in
>> authors table, then in northwinds create this view
>>
>> use northwind
>> GO
>> create view test
>> as
>> select * from pubs.dbo.authors where contains(*,'ringer')
>> GO
>> create view test1
>> as
>> select * from pubs.dbo.authors
>> join (select * from containstable(pubs.dbo.authors,*,'ringer')) as x
>> on x.[key]=pubs.dbo.authors.au_id
>> GO
>> select * from test
>> --two rows returned.
>> select * from test1
>> --two rows returned.
>>
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>> "MrTim" <MrTim@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:BDCF62C4-4657-4C36-BD33-893679B18F80@microsoft.com...
>>> We recently created a table with an FTI in a database, then created a
>>> view to
>>> this table in another database. We found we were not able to access the
>>> FTI
>>> using CONTAINS through the view.
>>>
>>> We got round it by changing our SP to use the FQN instead of the view,
>>> but
>>> it was of interest that the view method didn't work. Feature/bug??
>>
>>
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