SQL Extensions for Site Server Full-Text Queries

Microsoft Site Server version 3.0 also ships an OLE DB provider, the primary purpose of which is to allow users to write ADO application programs to query Web data. The OLE DB Provider for Site Server has not yet been tested with the SQL Server 7.0 query processor for distributed queries, and there is no official support for interoperability with SQL Server 7.0. However, users who want to experiment with this configuration will find the following information useful.

As with the OLE DB Provider for Index Services, the sp_addlinkedserver stored procedure is used to register OLE DB Provider for Site Server. For example, to register this provider for the WebTest text search catalog on the same computer that SQL Server is running on, the following statement must be executed:

EXECUTE sp_addlinkedserver  WebData,  'Site Server',  'MSSEARCHSQL',  'WebTest'

  

These are the definitions of the syntax terminology:

WebData
The linked server name assigned to this particular linked sever.
Site Server
The product name of the data source.
MSSEARCHSQL
The provider name (PROGID) of OLE DB Provider for Site Server.
WebTest
The name of the text search catalog that will be used for this linked server.

Notice that Site Server has additional syntax to support the union of results generated by a query across multiple catalogs. For more information, see your Site Server Search documentation.