Why ? Why ? Why ?
Msg 7696, Level 16, State 10, Line 1 Invalid locale ID was specified. Please
verify that the locale ID is correct and corresponding language resource has
been installed.

I am storing Arabic texts with "Erab" (Erab is used with Arabic alphabets
above or beneath the letter to show how the letter must be read) . But the
user might not enter Erab for the search. Is it possible to ask fulltext
indexes to ignore Erab?!

Time Out Problem
A single VB application links successfully to an SQL server.  The
application calls simple procedures to query the database.  After 30s these
queries timeout. If the timeout period is extended, all procedures return

I have a clustered SQL Server 2000 and have created a search catalog
for one of our databases using MS Search. I am getting some weird
behaviour: When the cluster group is running on Server1 the index gets
created successfully. However if I move the cluster group over to

I have a table on SQL Server 2005 with a column (collation
SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS) that can contain multiple languages. Some of
the possible languages include English, German, French, Kazakh, Arabic,
Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Japanese, Korean, Thai, etc.

When I restore a database it will place the catalogs in the default location
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\FTDATA", how can I change this
default location so that when I restore a new database, the full text
catalogs are stored elsewhere ?

I am the IT manager for the Flemish Red Cross and I am looking for an
existing tool/product that we can use to implement a full text-search
(including webpages, Word documents and PDF's) on our new website, thta
we're building on MS CMS and SQLServer.

We migrated our database to SQL Server 2005 RTM Enterprise (build
9.00.1399.06) and we have noticed that the full-text index is returning
significantly fewer matches in a containstable function compared to that of
SQL Server 2000.

I have a clustered 2005 server (build 9.00.1399.06). On the server I have 3
FT catalogues.
When I created the first catalogue everything was fine. The catalogue built
fine and returns results correctly (sooo much quicker than 2000!). Then I

How do I configure Windows 2003 to use the wordbreaker dll
(infosoft.dll) from a
Windows 2000 machine instead of it's own 'improved' version
(LangWbrk.dll). The 'improved' version breaks all our searches for part

I have a single table (TAB_FULL_TEXT_NET) , with only one field indexed
in my sql catalog.
I am runing  queries agaist the catalog  using CONTAINSTABLE
  select     [KEY] objDocumento,  tf.RANK RANK  from

Appologies if this has been asked before, I have been searching for
days now on how to do this without success.
We have a database we would like users to be able to search I have
enabled full text search and it works great but I cannot figure out how

I need to create a store procedure to perform incremental population of full
text index table. The store procedure will be call from my program.
Any ideas ???

Somebody knows how much distance between words uses the "NEAR" parameter?
PD: Pardon for my English.

While installing sp3 or sp4 on SQL2000, I get a "Microsoft full-text search
engine package failed" error message and the installation stops.
Windows2003 server
Any help would be appreciated.