Hi all,

Is it possible to get statistics of any sort from the full text engine?

My understanding is SQL Server treats the the fulltext engine as a remote
server and performs distributed queries against it via oledb. AFAIK, oledb
has optional interfaces to obtain stats (cardinality, distribution) which the
fulltext engine presumably supports since it comes up with reasonable
estimates in estimated query plans involving containstable.

So using an estimated plan is one way to get cardinality estimates for a
particular query, but I'm wondering if there's a more direct approach -- e.g.
I'd really like to be able to just get a histogram of terms. Perhaps it's
possible to connect directly to the full text engine via oledb? If so, what
would the connection string look like? or...?

Thanks for any ideas.

-Geoff