How to rebuild full-text index?

Question

Got a requirement to rebuild mssql full-text index.
Problem is - i need to know exactly when job is done. Therefore - just calling:

ALTER FULLTEXT CATALOG fooCatalog
REBUILD WITH ACCENT_SENSITIVITY = OFF  

doesn't work or I'm doing something slightly wrong. :/

Any ideas?

Answer 1

You can determine the status of the fulltext indexing by querying the indexing properties like this:

SELECT FULLTEXTCATALOGPROPERTY('IndexingCatalog', 'PopulateStatus') AS Status

Table Full-Text Populate Status

Displays the population status of the full-text indexed table.

The possible values are as follows:

0 = Idle.

1 = Full population is in progress.

2 = Incremental population is in progress.

3 = Propagation of tracked changes is in progress.

4 = Background update index is in progress, such as automatic change

tracking.

5 = Full-text indexing is throttled or pause

Answer 2

Since I cannot comment on Magnus' answer yet (lack of reputation), I will add it here. I found that there is a conflict of information on MSDN according to this MSDN link. According to the link I am referencing, the PopulateStatus has 10 possible values listed below:

0 = Idle.

1 = Full population in progress

2 = Paused

3 = Throttled

4 = Recovering

5 = Shutdown

6 = Incremental population in progress

7 = Building index

8 = Disk is full.  Paused.

9 = Change tracking

Answer 3

SELECT name, case FULLTEXTCATALOGPROPERTY(name, 'PopulateStatus') 
    when 0 then 'Idle'
    when 1 then ' Full population in progress'
    when 2 then ' Paused'
    when 3 then ' Throttled'
    when 4 then ' Recovering'
    when 5 then ' Shutdown'
    when 6 then ' Incremental population in progress'
    when 7 then ' Building index'
    when 8 then ' Disk is full.  Paused.'
    when 9 then ' Change tracking' end AS Status
from sys.fulltext_catalogs