Question

I’m loading a SQL Server 2000 database into my new SQL Server 2005 instance. As expected, the full-text catalogs don’t come with it. How can I rebuild them?

Right-clicking my full text catalogs and hitting ‘rebuild indexes‘ just hangs for hours and hours without doing anything, so it doesn’t appear to be that simple…

Answer 1

Try it using SQL.

• CREATE FULLTEXT CATALOG
• ALTER FULLTEXT CATALOG

Here’s an example from Microsoft.

--Change to accent insensitive USE AdventureWorks; GO ALTER FULLTEXT CATALOG ftCatalog  REBUILD WITH ACCENT_SENSITIVITY=OFF; GO -- Check Accentsensitivity SELECT FULLTEXTCATALOGPROPERTY('ftCatalog', 'accentsensitivity'); GO --Returned 0, which means the catalog is not accent sensitive.