I am trying to use FREETEXT
. The @name field often has nulls and this is not an error in the program. It just means that other search approaches are being used.
Originally I had
DECLARE @Name varchar(50) = ... -- some value which many be NULL or blank
SELECT ID
FROM dbo.Data WITH (NOLOCK)
WHERE FREETEXT(*, @Name)
I tried
DECLARE @Name varchar(50) = ... -- some value which many be NULL or blank
SELECT ID
FROM dbo.Data WITH (NOLOCK)
WHERE @Name IS NOT NULL AND FREETEXT(*, @Name)
But I still get
Msg 7645, Level 15, State 2, Line 3 Null or empty full-text predicate.
What is a good approach to get around this?
additional note
SELECT ID
FROM dbo.data WITH (NOLOCK)
WHERE FREETEXT(*, ' ')
also throws and error