Has anybody every expirenced this, and if so, is there any way to
repair the index as opposed to Rebuilding the index and then starting
a full population on it. My table that's full-text indexed has over 12
million records in it, and it takes 5+ days to do a full population.

I use the FORMSOF(INFLECTIONAL, ...) when I create my searches from a user's entry.  A coworker has just pointed out that when she searches for "financial", the search does not return matches with the word "financials" it it.
Is it possible to add this word pair to Full-Text ...

We have a database full of grocery items that we're trying to search. When I
search for "*1%*" it seems that the percent sign is ignored and I get back
all the rows that match "*1*" (which is A LOT). Is there anyway I can tell
full-text search not to discard the percent sign and ...

Does anyone know of any links to articles or information on creating a
custom word-breaker and stemmer for full-text search on SQL 2005?
In the meantime I'll keep Googling.
Thanks

I recently redistributed our database data files from one large VRAID5 disk
(G:) to 3 VRAID1 disks (T:, U:, V:).  At this point, I have moved everything
(including SQLAgent output & log files, job logs, tlogs, backups) EXCEPT:
1) FTDATA folder and its contents;

I have installed SQL Server 2005 Express Edition with Advanced Services.
Could you tell me please what should I do to enable full-text indexing?
I have read in a book that I should run MSFTESQL service, but I don't know
how. Will you help me?

I would like to ask if there are any books for beginners on full text
search for sql server thanks!

Hi All: I have an FT Cat with 3 tables in it that I created 6 months ago.
Each table in the FT Cat has "track changes" set to "automatic"
There's no defined population schedule.
Will this catalog be updated automatically when the data in the tables

Hi: I have a FT cat with two tables in it:
products, manufacturers
and the tables each have a field in the FT Cat:
"pname", "mname"

I have a very strange problem : I've installed SQL server 2005, create
a storage for full index and full text index on a table. I've also
installed Adobe IFilter. Searches are OK but only on one criteria I
have problem. let me explain.

I'm looking for some advice on the best methods / tools to implement an
intranet search facility using ASP.NET and SQL2005.
I need the ability to search both SQL Server content and files stored on the
web servers file system (.doc, .xls, .pdf, etc).

Hallo Everyone,
To run full text search with PDF documents, there is an iFilter
available from Adobe - at least for the x86 operating system. But I did
not find an x64 version of this iFilter tool!

I've been asked to find a way of doing some complex searches against a
SQL Server 2000 database using MSSearch.
The company I'm contracting to wants to know if there is a way to
perform a search such as:

out website is starting to get serious about switching from SQL 2000 to SQL
2005. in the process we hope to address a few weak points in our site's
fulltext searching.
i'd like to find the best possible documentation or courses to get up to

I have a slight problem, I have 4 fulltext catalogues that I cant remove
using the:
DROP FULLTEXT CATALOG SOMENAME
that never finishes and cancel query doesnt work.