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Author  Topic  cmensah Starting Member 1 Post Posted - 2009-10-08 : 04:46:41 Hi there I have 3 tables, 1. tblBook(BookID, ISBN, Title, Summary) 2. tblAuthor(AuthorID, FullName) 3. tblBookAuthor(BookAuthorID, BookID, AuthorID) tblBookAuthor allows for a single book to have multiple authors and an author may have written any number of books. I am using full text search to search for ranking base on a word: SET @Word = 'FORMSOF(INFLECTIONAL, "' + @Word + '")' SELECT COALESCE(ISBNResults.[KEY], TitleResults.[KEY], SummaryResults.[KEY]) AS [KEY], ISNULL(ISBNResults.Rank, 0) * 3 + ISNULL(TitleResults.Rank, 0) * 2 + ISNULL(SummaryResults.Rank, 0) AS Rank FROM CONTAINSTABLE(tblBook, ISBN, @Word, LANGUAGE 'English') AS ISBNResults FULL OUTER JOIN CONTAINSTABLE(tblBook, Title, @Word, LANGUAGE 'English') AS TitleResults ON ISBNResults.[KEY] = TitleResults.[KEY] FULL OUTER JOIN CONTAINSTABLE(tblBook, Summary, @Word, LANGUAGE 'English') AS SummaryResults ON ISBNResults.[KEY] = SummaryResults.[KEY] The above code works fine for just searching tblBook table. But now I would like to search also the table tblAuthor based on key word searched. Can you help me with this?