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Asked: 2026-05-11T07:17:22+00:00

Consider there is one MS SQL server 2005 instance with 3 databases on it

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Consider there is one MS SQL server 2005 instance with 3 databases on it … Dev, RC and Production. All of them have (more or less) the same schema. All of them have a ‘same’ table with full text index on it.

  1. What happens if the name of full text index catalog is the same on all 3 databases?
  2. Do they share the same physical catalog?
  3. Is it any better (performance) to have unique catalog name on each DB?

It seams MSDN Create fulltext catalog does not give a good answer to that.

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  1. On SQL2005 the catalog names do not need to be unique. On the file system SQL will add a 4 digit number to end of the name to make it unique (eg. ‘ft_Catalog’ becomes ‘ft_Catalog0000’, ‘ft_Catalog0001’, etc).

    I prefer to name the catalog so the database name is included: ‘ft_cat_[DATABASENAME]’. Makes looking at the file system easier.

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