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Searching the Knowledge Base with leading wildcard in the Service Portal creates performance issue

Joachim V_
Mega Guru

Based on this documentation 

Wildcard characters allow searching for patterns and variations (servicenow.com)

we activated Wildcards (e.g. *) in the (Zing) search for our Knowlegde Base via Service Portal with this result: 

  • Searching for a string with a wildcard at the end (like clipboar* to find results for clipboard) works as expected within less than 2 seconds. -> OK
  • Searching for a string with a wildcard at the beginning (like *lipboard) also opens the expected results (here 2 matches) but with a searching time of > 2 minutes. If I use % as leading wildcard (%lipboard), the search takes ~1,5 minutes.

Did anyone experience similar or can give me a hint what could be wrong (we're currently on Utah)

 

Thanks
Joachim

 

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Joachim V_
Mega Guru