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Troubleshooting Full-Text Search

The troubleshooting information in this section addresses issues that can cause problems in full-text search.

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Additional Troubleshooting Resources

For information about changes in SQL Server 2008 that might break existing full-text search queries, see Breaking Changes to Full-Text Search in SQL Server 2008.

The following stored procedures, views, and server configuration options are useful for troubleshooting full-text search issues:

  • default full-text language Option
    Specifies the default language value for full-text indexed columns. Linguistic analysis is performed on all data that is full-text indexed and is dependent on the language of the data. The default value of this option is the language of the server.

  • FULLTEXTCATALOGPROPERTY
    Returns information about full-text catalog properties.

  • FULLTEXTSERVICEPROPERTY (Transact-SQL)
    Returns information related to the properties of the Full-Text Engine. These properties can be set and retrieved by using sp_fulltext_service.

  • sp_fulltext_keymappings
    Returns the content from the keymap internal table. This table maps the custom full-text key values (row IDs) to the internal DocId of the full-text index, which the full-text index uses to map a given row in the base table.

  • sp_fulltext_pendingchanges
    Returns unprocessed changes, such as pending inserts, updates, and deletes, for a specified table that is using change tracking.

  • sp_fulltext_service
    Changes the server properties of full-text search for SQL Server.

  • sp_help_fulltext_system_components
    Returns information for the registered word-breakers, filter, and protocol handlers. sp_help_fulltext_system_components also returns a list of identifiers of databases and full-text catalogs that have used the specified component.

  • sys.dm_fts_fdhosts
    Returns information on the current activity of the filter daemon host or hosts on the server instance.

  • sys.dm_fts_index_keywords_by_document
    Returns information about the document-level content of a full-text index for the specified table. A given keyword can appear in several documents.

  • sys.dm_fts_index_keywords
    Returns information about the content of a full-text index for the specified table.

  • sys.dm_fts_index_population
    Returns information about the full-text index populations currently in progress.

  • sys.dm_fts_memory_buffers
    Returns information about memory buffers belonging to a specific memory pool that are used as part of a full-text crawl or a full-text crawl range.

  • sys.dm_fts_memory_pools
    Returns information about the shared memory pools available to the Full-Text Gatherer component for a full-text crawl or a full-text crawl range.

  • sys.dm_fts_outstanding_batches
    Returns information about each full-text indexing batch.

  • sys.dm_fts_parser
    Returns the final tokenization result after applying a given word breaker, thesaurus, and stoplist combination to a query string input. The output is equivalent to the output if the specified given query string were issued to the Full-Text Engine.

  • sys.dm_fts_population_ranges
    Returns information about the specific ranges related to a full-text index population currently in progress.

  • sys.fulltext_document_types
    Returns a row for each document type that is available for full-text indexing operations. Each row represents the IFilter interface that is registered in the instance of SQL Server.

  • sys.fulltext_index_fragments
    Contains a row for each full-text index fragment in every table that contains a full-text index.

  • sys.fulltext_indexes
    Contains a row per full-text index of a tabular object.

  • sys.fulltext_languages
    Contains one row per language whose word breakers are registered with SQL Server. Each row displays the LCID and name of the language.

For information about the full-text properties and the Transact-SQL functions that can be used to obtain the value of each property, see Full-Text Catalog and Index Properties (Transact-SQL).

Word-Breaking Timeout Errors

A word-breaking timeout error can occur in a variety of situations. For information about these situations and how to respond, see MSSQLSERVER_30053.