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regjose11 NO[at]SPAM hotmail.com
9/20/2004 1:06:01 AM

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Hello everybody, and thanks in advance for your help.

Well, I have created a full-text index in a table with about one
million
records, indexing three fields.
To start with, I created it with an incremental filling programming
once
a week, saturday night.
But the problem is that without an apparent cause, an incremental
filling
of the catalog happens now and then, in short intervals, wich are in
no way
regular (the database is not manipulated nor any information added,
deleted or modified for the MSSearch to re-index)
I re-created the full-text index without any filling programming, and
it
continues going on with the incremental fillings.
What could be the cause? Any idea on how can I avoid these fillings
that seem
to happen randomly?
Please, help me.

Thank you very much again.

Re: Incremental Fill of Full-Text Catalog Problem. Please help!

Hilary Cotter
9/20/2004 8:35:33 AM

Hola Jose!

The English word for filling is population. From what you describe it sounds
like you are getting random incremental populations.

Can you verify 1) that there is a timestamp column on the tables you are
Full Text indexing? This will ensure that an incremental population is being
done as opposed to a full population. Your first population will always be a
full population.

2) can you issue this query on the server you are full text indexing?

select name from msdb.dbo.sysjobsteps, sysjobs where command like
'%sp_fulltext%'
and sysjobs.job_id=sysjobsteps.job_id

This will give you the names of population jobs. Check the management folder
to see if the jobs with these names have any schedules on them.

This could account for these un anticipated schedules.

--
Hilary Cotter
Looking for a SQL Server replication book?
http://www.nwsu.com/0974973602.html

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Re: Incremental Fill of Full-Text Catalog Problem. Please help!

John Kane
9/23/2004 12:39:06 AM

Jose,
Could you provide additional information on what version of SQL Server (7.0
or 2000) you are using via -- SELECT @@version -- as this is very helpful in
understanding your environment.

If you are using SQL Server 2000, you can enable "Change Tracking" and
"Update Index in Background" and avoid the need to ever have to run a
scheduled Incremental Population (or filling of the catalog). SQL Server
2000 Books Online (BOL) has the details on how to implement "Change
Tracking" and "Update Index in Background".

Regards,
John

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