Differences between SQL FTS and Index Server FTS

What are the main differences between SQL FTS and Index Server FTS?
Thank you.
Best regards,
Emil Mustea
Emil,
Short answer: Not much as both as based upon the same internal MS Search
technologies used also in Exchange 2000/2003.
Longer Answer: While both a based upon the same code base, they differ in
what is indexed and how as the Indexing Service indexes files and depends
upon the NTFS change log and SQL Server FTS and the MSSearch service indexes
textual data in SQL Server tables.
Are there specific differences you're interested in? If so, could you post
more specific questions?
Thanks,
John
"Emil Mustea" <emil@.sonic.ro> wrote in message
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> What are the main differences between SQL FTS and Index Server FTS?
> Thank you.
> Best regards,
> Emil Mustea
>
|||SQL FTS only allows you to index and search textual data in tables in your database.
Indexing Services, Exchange Content Indexing, and Sharepoint portal server search allow you to index documents and their properties.
Indexing Services can natively index IMAP servers, file systems, web sites, ftp servers, nntp servers.
Exchange Content Indexing can index mailboxes, and public folders.
Sharepoint Portal server can index IMAP servers, file systems, web sites, ftp servers, nntp servers, and can be extended to index other document repositories like the Sharepoint WSS, Lotus Notes, etc.
|||Ok..I know that SQL FTS indexes SQL tables (and eventually files in SQL
2000), and Index Server indexes files.
What I wanted to ask is what are the main differences between quering SQL
FTS and Index Server(accent sensitivity, types of queries supported, ...etc)
Thank you.
Best regards,
Emil Mustea
"John Kane" <jt-kane@.comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Emil,
> Short answer: Not much as both as based upon the same internal MS Search
> technologies used also in Exchange 2000/2003.
> Longer Answer: While both a based upon the same code base, they differ in
> what is indexed and how as the Indexing Service indexes files and depends
> upon the NTFS change log and SQL Server FTS and the MSSearch service
indexes
> textual data in SQL Server tables.
> Are there specific differences you're interested in? If so, could you post
> more specific questions?
> Thanks,
> John
>
> "Emil Mustea" <emil@.sonic.ro> wrote in message
> news:Oh$CQ7fNEHA.3944@.tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>