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Asked: 2026-05-18T21:05:27+00:00

I am playing a little with fulltext indexes in Sql Server 2008. I created

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I am playing a little with fulltext indexes in Sql Server 2008. I created the index, catalog and full populate it.
My table has almost 400,000 records. My full text index is defined to a varchar(Max) column (lets call it Text for now). I am executing the follow query:

select * from MyTable
where contains(Text, ‘house’).

This query returns almost 20,000 records in 14 seconds. I think thats very slow. But, when i execute this query:

select Count(*) from MyTable
where contains(Text, ‘house’)

It takes only 1 second to show the result.

I’ve been looking and as far as I can see, the execution plan is the same for both queries.
Why is Sql Server taking that much to show the fist query result?

What I have already did:

I bought a SSD and put both mdf and ldf on this disk. But when I execute the first query, i can see that logs and a tmp database are being created at my HDD (not in the SSD). My SSD is D: and all temp files are being created at C:.

Is this taking so long because sql needs those files to populate the enterprise manager result grid? is there anything i can do to optimize the Database? I really need the queries to run in less than 2 seconds.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Do you really need to display all that text, or do you want to run some more queries on the results and narrow them further? I assume that most of the 14 seconds are used to display the results — if you don’t need to show them or only want to show some subset of these results, execution time should go down.

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