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                                         specialfx24 
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                                             Posted - 2009-04-02 : 10:11:47
                                            
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                                            | Can someone help me with this:HI, I have a text column in mssql, I would like to return the top 50 most popular words and their count(for all rows) excluding the wordsiaittheThe trouble is that each row contains a number of words (on average 100-200) Any clue how to do this?Nikos Katsikanis | 
                                             
                                         
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                                     blindman 
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                                            Posted - 2009-04-02 : 12:09:39
                                          
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                                          | Your best method is to parse the strings into a temporary table with a record for each word.________________________________________________If it is not practically useful, then it is practically useless.________________________________________________  | 
                                         
                                        
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                                     specialfx24 
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                                            Posted - 2009-04-02 : 14:00:42
                                          
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                                          | Cool, how exactly do I loop through words in ms sql row?Nikos Katsikanis  | 
                                         
                                        
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