Upgrade database from SQL Server 2000 to 2005 — and rebuild full-text indexes?
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09-06-2019 - |
Question
I'm loading a SQL Server 2000 database into my new SQL Server 2005 instance. As expected, the full-text catalogs don't come with it. How can I rebuild them?
Right-clicking my full text catalogs and hitting "rebuild indexes" just hangs for hours and hours without doing anything, so it doesn't appear to be that simple...
Solution
Try it using SQL.
Here's an example from Microsoft.
--Change to accent insensitive
USE AdventureWorks;
GO
ALTER FULLTEXT CATALOG ftCatalog
REBUILD WITH ACCENT_SENSITIVITY=OFF;
GO
-- Check Accentsensitivity
SELECT FULLTEXTCATALOGPROPERTY('ftCatalog', 'accentsensitivity');
GO
--Returned 0, which means the catalog is not accent sensitive.
OTHER TIPS
Thanks, that helped because it showed what was wrong: My file paths were different. Here's how I fixed it:
1) Load database from SQL 2000 backup
2) Set compatibility mode to SQL 2005
USE mydb
GO
ALTER DATABASE mydb SET COMPATIBILITY_LEVEL = 90
GO
3) Get the filegroup names
SELECT name
FROM sys.master_files mf
WHERE type = 4
AND EXISTS( SELECT *
FROM sys.databases db
WHERE db.database_id = mf.database_id
AND name = 'mydb')
4) Then for each name (I did this in a little script)
ALTER DATABASE mydb
MODIFY FILE( NAME = {full text catalog name}, FILENAME="N:\ew\path\to\wherever")
5) Then collect all the "readable" names of the catalogs:
SELECT name FROM sys.sysfulltextcatalogs
6) Finally, now you can rebuild each one:
ALTER FULLTEXT CATALOG {full text catalog name} REBUILD