Plan Guide

Is it possible to do something like this with a query plan?
I want to get
Query1
select * from tableA
where col1 like '%value%'
to run like
Query2
select * from tableA
where contains(col1, "value")
using a plan_guide.
Basically what's happening is a 3rd party product is executing a query that
looks like query1, which is searching on a text field (col1).
I wanted to try a full text index, but I don't think that I can get the
vendor to change their code to use a contains instead.
Any ideas?
Tia
--
MGEgads, why isn't the vendor using stored procedures?
"Hurme" <michael.geles@.thomson.com> wrote in message
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> Is it possible to do something like this with a query plan?
> I want to get
> Query1
> select * from tableA
> where col1 like '%value%'
> to run like
> Query2
> select * from tableA
> where contains(col1, "value")
> using a plan_guide.
> Basically what's happening is a 3rd party product is executing a query
> that
> looks like query1, which is searching on a text field (col1).
> I wanted to try a full text index, but I don't think that I can get the
> vendor to change their code to use a contains instead.
> Any ideas?
> Tia
> --
> MG|||"Aaron Bertrand [SQL Server MVP]" <ten.xoc@.dnartreb.noraa> wrote in message
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> Egads, why isn't the vendor using stored procedures?
LOL with SQL statements hardwired into the client-side code the customer
can't go in and make changes like this to the code