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Asked: 2026-05-11T23:33:51+00:00

Got a requirement to rebuild mssql full-text index. Problem is – I need to

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Got a requirement to rebuild mssql full-text index.
Problem is – I need to know exactly when job is done. Therefore – just calling: 

ALTER FULLTEXT CATALOG fooCatalog
REBUILD WITH ACCENT_SENSITIVITY = OFF

doesn’t work or I’m doing something slightly wrong. :/

Any ideas?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can determine the status of the fulltext indexing by querying the indexing properties like this:

    SELECT FULLTEXTCATALOGPROPERTY('IndexingCatalog', 'PopulateStatus') AS Status

    Populate Status:
    0 = Idle
    1 = Full population in progress
    2 = Paused
    3 = Throttled
    4 = Recovering
    5 = Shutdown
    6 = Incremental population in progress
    7 = Building index
    8 = Disk is full. Paused.
    9 = Change tracking

    But also pay attention to this note in the article:

    The following properties will be removed in a future release of SQL
    Server: LogSize and PopulateStatus. Avoid using these properties in
    new development work, and plan to modify applications that currently
    use any of them.

    EDIT: Corrected link to a newer page and added quote from the note

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