SELECT  Customers.CustomerId, Customers.Firstname, Customers.Surname FROM Customers INNER JOIN DealershipCustomers ON Customers.CustomerId = DealershipCustomers.CustomerId INNER JOIN Dealerships ON DealershipCustomers.DealershipId = Dealerships.DealershipId INNER JOIN CONTAINSTABLE(Customers, *, @Term) AS K ON Customers.CustomerId = K.[KEY]

SET @Tearm='"John*"'
SELECT  Customers.CustomerId, Customers.Firstname, Customers.Surname 
FROM Customers 
INNER JOIN DealershipCustomers 
ON Customers.CustomerId = DealershipCustomers.CustomerId 
INNER JOIN Dealerships 
ON DealershipCustomers.DealershipId = Dealerships.DealershipId 
INNER JOIN CONTAINSTABLE(Customers, *, @Term) AS K 
ON Customers.CustomerId = K.[KEY]

SET @Term='"Joh*"'

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Originally posted by JohnSourcer

Yes, visakh.

If the match is exact i.e John, SQL throws an error but:

SET @Term='"Joh*"'

Returns the match.

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Originally posted by visakh16

Ok...

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CREATE TABLE [dbo].[TestTable](
	[ID] [int] NOT NULL,
	[Code] [nvarchar](12) NOT NULL,
 CONSTRAINT [PK_TestTable] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED 
(
	[ID] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX  = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE  = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, 
ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS  = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS  = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]

INSERT INTO TestTable (ID, Code) VALUES (1, 'CB55FJGP')

DECLARE @Term nvarchar(10)
SET @Term='"CB55FJGP*"'

SELECT  TestTable.ID, TestTable.Code FROM  TestTable 
INNER JOIN CONTAINSTABLE(TestTable, *, @Term) AS K ON TestTable.ID = K.[KEY]	

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Originally posted by visakh16

Ok. So I hope your issue is resolved

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