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Common Operators
and Matches rows where both expressions on either side of the "and" are true.
or Matches rows where either expression on either side of the "or" are true.
"..." Phrase enclosed within double quote (“"”) characters matches only rows that contain the phrase literally, as it was typed.

Example;
  • "some words" - find rows that contain the exact phrase “some words” (for example, rows that contain “some words of wisdom” but not “some noise words”).
* Asterisk serves as the truncation (or wildcard) operator

Example;
  • 'apple*' - find rows that contain words such as “apple”, “apples”, “applesauce”, or “applet”.
+ The plus sign indicates that this word must be present in each row that is returned

Example;
  • '+apple +juice' - find rows that contain both words.
- The minus sign indicates that this word must not be present in any of the rows that are returned.

Example;
  • '+apple -macintosh' - find rows that contain the word “apple” but not “macintosh”.


Operators affecting result ranking (Advanced)
~ Leading tilde acts as a negation operator, causing the word's contribution to the row's relevance to be negative. This is useful for marking “noise” words.

Example;
  • '+apple ~macintosh' - find rows that contain the word “apple”, but if the row also contains the word “macintosh”, rate it lower than if row does not. This is “softer” than a search for '+apple -macintosh', for which the presence of “macintosh” causes the row not to be returned at all.
> Increase word's contribution to the relevance value that is assigned to a row

See example below.
< Decrease word's contribution to the relevance value that is assigned to a row

Example;
  • '+apple +(>turnover <strudel)' - find rows that contain the words “apple” and “turnover”, or “apple” and “strudel” (in any order), but rank “apple turnover” higher than “apple strudel”.