Maintaining Full-Text Indexes
Maintaining full-text indexes presents some new challenges to the database administrator. One of the most important choices that must be made with regard to full-text indexes is how to repopulate them.
Choosing the Best Refresh Schedule
Updating a full-text index is an expensive operation. If possible, restrict the refresh periods to an off-peak time window. Complete refreshes are the simplest method for maintaining your indexes, but large data sets (more than a million rows) can be unwieldy. The correct choice for repopulation schedules must be made with application design goals in mind. Do you require real-time indexing? Can you live with one hour, one day, or one week of lag time between updating the index?
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