Question

I’m using SQL Server 2008 and I would like to use a sproc to tell the database to populate a full-text index.

If available, I’d like to know what the sprocs are for the following actions:

• adding an entry into the index
• removing an entry into the index
• full populate

Answer 1

sp_fulltext_catalog is what you’re looking for.

From Books Online, if you were looking to rebuild (this a drop and create) a full-text catalog named Cat_Desc in the AdventureWorks database…

USE AdventureWorks;
GO
EXEC sp_fulltext_catalog 'Cat_Desc', 'rebuild';
GO

If you wanted to start full population of said catalog…

USE AdventureWorks;
GO
EXEC sp_fulltext_catalog 'Cat_Desc', 'start_full';
GO

If you wanted to perform incremental population of said catalog…

USE AdventureWorks;
GO
EXEC sp_fulltext_catalog 'Cat_Desc', 'start_incremental';
GO