Stored procedures: Implement full text search

Enabling full text search in T-SQL is not as popular as doing it with the Enterprise Manager. Nonetheless, it can be useful in certain situations. Here are the steps to implement FTS in T-SQL.

1. Enable full text on the database by executing the following SP:
2. Create the catalog (if it does not exist):
3. Add a full text index on a table:
4. Add a column to the full text index:
5. Activate the index:
6. Start full population:

Here are some examples on how to use this procedure:

About the author

Eli Leiba works at the Israel Electric Company as a senior application DBA in Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server systems. He has certifications from Microsoft and BrainBench in Oracle and SQL Server database administration and implementation. Mr. Leiba holds a B.S. in computer science and has 11 years of experience working in the database field. Additionally, Mr. Leiba teaches SQL Server DBA and development courses at the Microsoft CTEC and serves as a senior database consultant for several Israeli start-up companies.

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