VSTS How do I search All Fields? - azure-devops

I would like to create a Query in VS Team Services > Work > Queries that searches all fields in Work Items that are indexed for full-text search.
To search for the text "confusing", I can create a query for
Title contains confusing
OR Description contains confusing
OR Steps to Repro contains confusing
OR History contains confusing
Is there a better way?

You can easily do so using Work Item Search. Just go to Work hub and type in the text "confusing" in the search box and hit Enter.

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Searching for a user named "Don" with PostgreSQL full text search

We hit a bug with our PostreSQL full text search system where a user whose first name is "Don" was not being included in search results. After some digging, we found that "don" is listed as a stopword in the default full text search dictionary in PostgreSQL (https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/master/src/backend/snowball/stopwords/english.stop).
We are using a hosted DB solution so we don't have access to the file system and thus can't create a modified version of the stopword file.
Are there any workarounds for this other than doing a string comparison check? Given that there can be multiple search tokens, it seems pretty bad to have to perform a string comparison of the name fields against every search token.
All the other words in the English stopword file seem pretty reasonable, but I'm really surprised I don't see any other Google/SO results complaining about users named "Don".
Maybe this makes it clear why don is a stopword:
SELECT to_tsvector('english', 'don''t');
to_tsvector
-------------
(1 row)
You wouldn't want to remove that stop word.
Full text search is not useful for proper names.
Normally, trigram indexes are better for that.

How do I search though related tables in access and have the results displayed in a list box

I have created a form that searches through a table, following the instructions of John Big Booty, as can be seen here: https://access-programmers.co.uk/for...d.php?t=188663. The search form has a list box that has a query run whenever a text box is changed which allows me to search fields in one table but how do I adjust it to allow me to find related records stored in a second table. The database stores widow information and they are looked after by legatees.
The query has the following code in the criteria for each field you want to search Like "" & [forms]![FRM_SearchMulti]![SrchText] & "".
Each legatee is responsible for looking after multiple widows and any widow can be assigned to any legatee but any widow can only one legatee when she is assigned to one.
The search form is called FRM_SearchMulti and it searches through the widow table as I type. I want it so that you can type in a legatee and it will display the widows that have been assigned to that legatee typed in the search box. I seem to have hit a road block and everything I try doesn’t seem to work.
I have uploaded a version of the db with a lot of the information deleted, for privacy reasons, so if it is possible, could you describe to me how to do it and I will update the file with all the information in it please?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Dave

Search SharePoint Foundation 2013 Picture Library by terms defined in Keywords field

Since Term Store functionality (and probably most of metadata functionality) isn't available in SharePoint Foundation 2013, I couldn't find a way to search through the pictures using some sort of tagging. Thus I decided to employ something what is available already in Foundation version.
When you edit the picture, you can see 3 fields: Title, Description and Keywords like so:
It would be nice if I could make Search index terms (tags) added to the Keywords field. However, after some testing I saw that only Title is indexed and presented in search results. Although I could use my search terms in Title field, it won't be elegant.
So, is there any way to make use of Keywords entity in my case? Please note, it's a Foundation version, so there is no Enterprise Keywords functionality either (or at least I couldn't find one).
OK, so I used this kind of workaround in the end:
Went to my Picture Libraly's Settings
Chose to create a new column (this can also be done in Site Settings > Site Columns, if you want to reuse it for more sites)
Called the column Primary Tags
Chose Single line of text option, because multiple lines option cannot be indexed
Because single line option is limited to 255 characters, I repeated steps 2-4 to create another column and named it Secondary Tags
Then went to Indexed Columns page and added those 2 new columns to the index
Now I have Title, Primary Tags and Secondary Tags indexed fields available for each picture with a total of 765 characters available.

Must be possible to filter table names in a single database?

As far as I can tell, the search filter in the navigator will only search available database names, not table names.
If you click on a table name and start typing, it appears that a simple search can be performed beginning with the first letter of the tables.
I'm looking for way to be able to search all table names in a selected database. Sometimes there can be a lot of tables to sort through. It seems like a feature that would likely be there and I can't find it.
Found out the answer...
If you type for example *.test_table or the schema name instead of the asterisk it will filter them. The key is that the schema/database must be specified in the search query. The asterisk notation works with the table names as well. For example *.*test* will filter any table in any schema with test anywhere in the table name.
You can use the command
SHOW TABLES like '%%';
To have it always in your tools, you can add it as a snippet to SQL aditions panel on the right.
Then you can always either bring it in your editor and type your search key between %%, or just execute it as it is (It will fetch all the tables of the database) and then just filter using the "filter rows" input of the result set.

Is it possible to perform a Sphinx search on one string attribute?

sql_query=SELECT id,headline,summary,body,tags,issues,published_at
FROM sphinx_search
I am working on the search feature of my Web site and I am using Sphinx, Perl and Sphinx::Search. As long as I want to search in all the attributes and I don't restrict it to just one, everything goes well. However when the user searches for a specific tag, I can't just give the result of a fuzzy search, I want to use the power of Sphinx to search only on tags or issues, maybe sometimes the user wants to search on headline and issues.
How can I perform such a task?
You need to put it in Extended Match Mode
https://metacpan.org/module/JJSCHUTZ/Sphinx-Search-0.27.2/lib/Sphinx/Search.pm#SetMatchMode
Then you can use Extended Query syntax
http://sphinxsearch.com/docs/current.html#extended-syntax
Which includes the field search operator
#tags keyword1
(Be careful with sphinx, the word "attribute" has a specific meaning - values attached to the document, useful for sorting/grouping/filtering and returning with the resultset. Whereas I think you are talking about fields. All the columns from the sql_query you dont mark as an attribute, are a field - and full text searchable)