Population is where you get all the data from your tables and full-text
index it.
Optimization is where you consolidate the numerous indexes that may form as
the result of an indexing operation for a table into one index. Normally
this is forced every 50,000 rows. With change tracking you can get
significant fragmentation of your full-text indexes.

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Nick Gilbert - 19 Oct 2007 16:15 GMT
Thanks Hilary!
> Population is where you get all the data from your tables and full-text
> index it.
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> this is forced every 50,000 rows. With change tracking you can get
> significant fragmentation of your full-text indexes.