Search for	Example	Results
A single word	`cat`	Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats".
A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase.	`"cat food"` (quotation marks)	Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase.

Search for	Operator	Example
Two or more words in the same topic	`AND` `and` `+` (plus symbol) `&` (ampersand)	`cat AND dog` `"cat food"+milk` `"cat food"&"dog food"`
Either word in a topic	`OR` `or` `\|` (pipe)	`cat OR dog` `cat \| dog`
Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase	`NOT` `not` `!` (exclamation point)	`NOT cat` `! dog`
Topics that contain one string and do not contain another	`^` (caret)	`cat ^ mouse`
A combination of search types	`( )` parentheses	`cat + (dog \| mouse)` `cat \| dog + (! mouse)`

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Miscellaneous queries

Service Manager handles miscellaneous queries as described in the following.

Queries with numbers in an array field

Queries with numbers in an array field, such as '1 in assets="adv-Unix-101"', translate into a SQL statement like the following:

'a3.record_number = 1 AND a3.asset = ?'

The Service Manager server supports the following operators in such kind of queries:

All logical operators
TR, and NTR
Like

Caution If other operators are used in a query, the query translates into "1=1" and may cause performance issues. For more information about supported query operators, see Query operators.

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