Comments on: Sql Server Full-Text Search Protips Part 1: Setup

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:13:16 +0000

Protip of the Day:

Use spell check.

To do this, we can run some system stored procedures. I should note that these are

depereciated

in 2005

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:33:55 +0000

By: sankar

sankar — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:59:15 +0000

Dear sir
Iam using sqlserver management express edition,when iam creating full text search in a table it shows a message called fulltext search already enabled.how to know for which catalog it is assigned and what fields full text is enabled. how to change catalog for that table. Actually i want to crate a catalog for a table and have to assign all fields in that table. Please help me in this

By: Trent

Trent — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 03:43:00 +0000

This article and discussion seems a bit misleading…

From my expirements, it seems that turning on both “Change Tracking” and “Update Index in Background” (as found on the context menu for the table in Enterprise Manager) does result in the catalog getting updated when text/image columns are updated. This works when calling UPDATE/INSERT on the row in question AND when simply typing into the relevant column via Enterprise Manager.

It is true that WRITETEXT and UPDATETEXT operations don’t cause updates to the catalog, however this is an unusual case. I expect most users would be using the (less performant) UPDATE/INSERT operations and they’d find that their catalogs do update when expected, without the need for a scheduled update.

By: Bas

Bas — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:32:37 +0000

SQL Server 2005 Express Edition does support Full-Text Search, contrary to what the article states. Be sure to install the SQL Server 2005 Express Edition with Advanced Services SP2.

By: wwb_99

wwb_99 — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:54:46 +0000

I intentionally used the SQL 2000-compatible commands, mainly because more people could use them. They do work in Sql 2005 as well, and will likely work in Sql 2008. Even if they are depreciated.

By: Damen

Damen — Wed, 23 May 2007 21:19:54 +0000

Good stuff, but using those system stored procedures should be avoided if using SQL 2005 as they are deprecated.
Would be great to see an example using the correct / latest SQL.

By: Sanjeev Kumar

Sanjeev Kumar — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:45:03 +0000

Table design consideration section is really ver much helpful.

By: Barbley

Barbley — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:16:16 +0000

Wyatt - thanks so much for taking the tie to responde to all of my posts. The information you’ve provided will come in handy.
Thanks again,
B

By: wwb_99

wwb_99 — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 01:30:58 +0000

I think that will get an initial population going. But it will not continue to update things. Remember that TEXT and IMAGE columns are funny beasts insofar as Sql 2000 is concerned. The data in the field is actually merely a pointer to another page. In effect, the data is not really part of the row.

To quote the Sql 2000 books online:

“Full-text change tracking does not track any WRITETEXT or UPDATETEXT operations performed on full-text indexed columns that are of type image, text, or ntext.”

What that means is that you need to manually create a schedule to run an incremental population on the table with a full-text index on the TEXT column.