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Is there a way to escape the * character in a full text Contains function in sql server 2008? I've tried a standard escape by using square brackets, but that just throws a syntax error. Also, any solution can only use full-text functions as the column I'm searching is an image/blob column.

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There is no point in escaping and searching for special characters such as * because they are treated like word separators and are not indexed. Fulltext indexes do not support searching for them.

See also related question SQL Server Full Text Search Escape Characters?

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