Sql-server – viewing the population? (sql server full text search)

Hi we can query multiple tables in a full-text search by using views ,but we some advantages and disadvantages . Here in your case you created view dbo.vw_recipe_search it seems your are not using it in altered procedure when i query it i am getting results as per intended

  SELECT *
        FROM dbo.vw_recipe_search r 
        INNER JOIN FREETEXTTABLE(vw_recipe_search, *, 'salsa peas') kt
            ON r.search_id = kt.[KEY]
        ORDER BY RANK DESC;

The problem in this approach is ranking and weightage of each column , like suppose if u want to give high weight to title column than descrip you have to do a lot of work in order by rank column . We used Levenstein string comparision function to order for better results set

You might try scripting it out to see if you get a different behaviour. This simple example runs in under a minute on my local SQL 2005 instance:

USE master
GO

SET NOCOUNT ON
GO

IF EXISTS ( SELECT * FROM sys.databases WHERE name = 'fullTextDemo3' )
BEGIN
    ALTER DATABASE fullTextDemo3 SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE
    DROP DATABASE fullTextDemo3
END
GO

IF NOT EXISTS ( SELECT * FROM sys.databases WHERE name = 'fullTextDemo3' )
CREATE DATABASE [fullTextDemo3]
GO

ALTER DATABASE fullTextDemo3 SET RECOVERY SIMPLE
GO

USE fullTextDemo3
GO

CREATE TABLE dbo.nearnessTest (
    rowId           INT IDENTITY,
    keywords        VARCHAR(MAX) NOT NULL,
    notes           VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL,

    CONSTRAINT PK_nearnessTest PRIMARY KEY ( rowId )
)
GO


INSERT dbo.nearnessTest
--SELECT TOP 270000 m1.[text], ''
SELECT m1.[text], ''
FROM sys.messages m1
--  CROSS JOIN sys.messages m2
WHERE m1.language_id = 1033
  --AND m2.language_id = 1033
GO

-- Create the catalog
IF NOT EXISTS ( SELECT * FROM sys.fulltext_catalogs WHERE name = N'ftc_List3' ) 
CREATE FULLTEXT CATALOG ftc_List3
GO

-- Create the full-text index
CREATE FULLTEXT INDEX ON dbo.nearnessTest (keywords) KEY INDEX PK_nearnessTest ON ftc_List3 WITH CHANGE_TRACKING MANUAL -- CHANGE_TRACKING OFF, NO POPULATION
GO

SELECT 'before' ft, * FROM sys.fulltext_indexes
GO

DECLARE @i INT 
SET @i = 0

WHILE EXISTS ( SELECT * FROM sys.fulltext_indexes WHERE has_crawl_completed = 0 )
BEGIN

        SELECT outstanding_batch_count, *
        FROM sys.dm_fts_index_population
        WHERE database_id = DB_ID()

        --SELECT *
        --FROM sys.dm_fts_outstanding_batches
        --WHERE database_id = DB_ID()

    WAITFOR DELAY '00:00:05'

    SET @i = @i + 1
    IF @i > 60 BEGIN RAISERROR( 'Too many loops!', 16, 1 ) BREAK END

END

SELECT 'after' ft, * FROM sys.fulltext_indexes
GO

SELECT * 
FROM dbo.nearnessTest 
WHERE CONTAINS( keywords, 'error' )

What happens when you issue an explicit start for the index population, eg

ALTER FULLTEXT INDEX ON dbo.yourTable START FULL POPULATION;

Run these summary functions

SELECT FULLTEXTSERVICEPROPERTY ( 'IsFulltextInstalled' ) IsFulltextInstalled
SELECT DATABASEPROPERTY('fullTextDemo3','IsFulltextEnabled') IsFulltextEnabled
SELECT FULLTEXTCATALOGPROPERTY('ftc_List3', 'AccentSensitivity ') AS AccentSensitivity 
SELECT FULLTEXTCATALOGPROPERTY('ftc_List3', 'IndexSize ') AS IndexSize 
SELECT FULLTEXTCATALOGPROPERTY('ftc_List3', 'ItemCount ') AS ItemCount 
SELECT FULLTEXTCATALOGPROPERTY('ftc_List3', 'LogSize ') AS LogSize 
SELECT FULLTEXTCATALOGPROPERTY('ftc_List3', 'MergeStatus ') AS MergeStatus 
SELECT FULLTEXTCATALOGPROPERTY('ftc_List3', 'PopulateCompletionAge ') AS PopulateCompletionAge 
SELECT FULLTEXTCATALOGPROPERTY('ftc_List3', 'PopulateStatus ') AS PopulateStatus 
SELECT FULLTEXTCATALOGPROPERTY('ftc_List3', 'UniqueKeyCount ') AS UniqueKeyCount 
SELECT FULLTEXTCATALOGPROPERTY('ftc_List3', 'ImportStatus ') AS ImportStatus