What are the full-text search tools you can use in SQL Server?

Question

Besides full-text indexing and using LIKE keyword, what are other tools to build search functionality on top of MS SQL? This question is particularly for searching records, not files.

Answer 1

I documented how I used Lucene.NET in my ASP.NET application BugTracker.NET here:

http://www.ifdefined.com/blog/post/2009/02/Full-Text-Search-in-ASPNET-using-LuceneNET.aspx

Answer 2

In episode 11 of the SO podcast Jeff and Joel discussed full text searching of SQL Server, Joel's recommendation was Lucene.NET. You can see their discussion in that episode's transcript, it is about a quarter of the way down the page.

Answer 3

2008's full text search capabilities have been improved - perhaps look there first..

Answer 4

I believe MS SQL 2005+ has the capability to search using regular expression.

MSDN has an article about this http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163473.aspx.