Comments on: Excluding empty text values in SharePoint Search

By: Get Recent Changes across Site Collections | Mike's Notebook

Get Recent Changes across Site Collections | Mike's Notebook — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:16:34 +0000

[...] (Thanks to Waldek for that! More here: http://blog.mastykarz.nl/excluding-empty-text-values-sharepoint-search/) [...]

By: Ayan

Ayan — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:19:56 +0000

I had to do a wild card search with FULLTextSQLQuery class. I wrote my query as select….where IS NULL or LIKE '%Text%'….. it is throwing the same error as mentioned above. Could you please provide any solution for these?

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:07:29 +0000

@Sridhar: As I mentioned: have you tried searching for = " values?

By: Sridhar

Sridhar — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:25:47 +0000

I have a similiar problem as @Yohan. I want to search for NULL or empty column values. Please help!

By: Sridhar

Sridhar — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:50:18 +0000

Interesting post but have the same problem as Yohan where I need to search for NULL values. Please help !

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:33:08 +0000

@Yohan: Have you tried using column = " (just a sanity check)?

By: Yohan

Yohan — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:43:09 +0000

Hi Waldek,
This is an interesting post since I was experiencing the same problem… thing is though, I want to search for NULL values, not exclude them! I've tried quite a few different methods without success… I think I have more trouble since my column is of type system.double. This prevents me from being able to use the text predicates etc….

Using (column > 0) returns the non-null values.
Using (column < 0) doesn't return anything.

If you have any clue as to how I can work around this, I would much appreciate!

Thanks,
Yohan