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mattmerc NO[at]SPAM bellsouth.net
1/30/2006 12:24:06 PM

sql server full text search: I made an ameteur mistake moving my sql database.

I have 5 full-text catalogs and I thought they would come with the
backup...well, they didn't. Now, in Enterprise Manager, under full-text
catalogs, I can still see them. I cannot delete, rebuild, or do
anything with them though because I get an error about the object
missing. I tried to remove them via command line:

use dev_i3
EXEC sp_fulltext_catalog 'fcAttachment', 'drop'

but no luck.

There mus be a way to manually remove the reference to these catalogs
so I can rebuild them? I hope?!

Thanks in advance.

Re: corrupt full text catalogs -- can't delete!

Hilary Cotter
1/31/2006 12:00:00 AM

Can you place the full text index table in another catalog?

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Re: corrupt full text catalogs -- can't delete!

mattmerc NO[at]SPAM bellsouth.net
2/6/2006 7:47:13 PM

I was able to fix my problem this way:

Change path of freetext catalogs to a valid path (previously to a drive
that didnt exist)
repopulate
then delete

I used this script I found

use master
go
sp_configure allow,1
go
reconfigure with override
go
use dev_3
go
update sysfulltextcatalogs set path = 'e:\program files\microsoft sql
server\mssql\ftdata'
go
select * from sysfulltextcatalogs
go
use master
go
sp_configure allow,0
go
reconfigure with override
go

Thanks for the help

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