Managing Full-Text Catalogs

Each database that you want to search must have its own full-text catalog. When you create a catalog, you can set a schedule for populating the catalog on a regular basis, or you elect to manually populate the catalog as necessary. Populating the catalog updates the full-text indexes for the catalog and ensures that the search results are accurate. SQL Server supports several methods for populating catalogs including:

  • Full population. The search service builds index entries for all rows in all the tables or views covered by the full-text catalog. In most cases, you perform a full population only when you create a catalog or need to refresh the entire contents of a catalog.

  • Incremental population. The search service only ...

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