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Overview of the Enterprise SQL Search Query

A search query in Enterprise Search in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is similar to a standard SQL query, as shown in the following syntax.

SELECT <columns>
FROM <content source>
WHERE <conditions> 
ORDER BY <columns>

Remarks

The Enterprise Search query syntax supports many options that enable more complicated queries.

The following table describes each clause in the SELECT statement, and the features it supports.

Clause Description

SELECT

Specifies the columns returned by the query.

FROM

Specifies the location to search.

WHERE

Specifies what constitutes a matching document. This clause has many options, enabling rich control over the search conditions. For example, you can match against words, phrases, inflectional word forms, strings, numeric and bitwise values, and multivalued arrays. You can also combine matching conditions with Boolean operators.

ORDER BY

Specifies the sort order for the results returned by the query. You can specify more than one field on which the results are sorted, and you can use ascending or descending ordering.

Query Example

The following example searches for documents where the title contains "SharePoint" from the "Marketing" search scope.

SELECT rank, title, path, author from Scope() WHERE CONTAINS(title,'SharePoint') and "scope"='Marketing'

See Also

Reference

SELECT Statement in Enterprise Search SQL Syntax
FROM Clause in Enterprise Search SQL Syntax
WHERE Clause in Enterprise Search SQL Syntax

Concepts

Enterprise Search Query Object Model Overview
Enterprise Search Query Web Service Overview