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SQL Server 2008 - Breaking bug

If you are using CTP6 of SQL Server 2008 and want to use Integrated Full Text and find it is not working. You might get timeouts or other general errors. It could be due to an account that iFTS uses. iFTS does some stuff out of process for security and reliability in CTP6 the run this process under a...

Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Fri, Apr 11 2008
SQL Server 2008 – iFTS Performance – DocidMap

The next post in the series on iFTS (Integrated Full Text Search) covers one of the major improvements in SQL Server 2008 for Full Text and is related to the Integrated part or iFTS. SQL Server 2005 introduced a huge performance improvement by moving the location of the docid map. So what is a docid...

Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Wed, Feb 20 2008
SQL Server 2008 – iFTS Manageability – Loading thesaurus files

The next post in the series on iFTS (Integrated Full Text Search) covers a thesaurus files. A feature introduced in SQL 2005. The loading of thesaurus files is a bit of an uncontrolled beast in SQL Server 2005 (there weren’t supported or documented prior to SQL 2005). The only way you could force a thesaurus...

Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Wed, Feb 20 2008
SQL Server 2008 – iFTS Transparency – Viewing the words in the index

This is the next in the series of posts about the new iFTS (Integrated Full Text Search) in SQL Server 2008. One of the huge frustrations with using Full Text prior to SQL Server 2008 was that you had no idea what content the iFilter has extracted from the document you have indexed. This leads to questions...

Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Wed, Feb 20 2008
SQL Server 2008 – iFTS Transparency – dm_fts_parser

SQL Server 2008 – iFTS Transparency – dm_fts_parser In the next in this series of posts on Integrated Full Text Search (iFTS) in SQL Server 2008, we look at the new dmv dm_fts_parser. Wow thats a cool function name what does it do Simon? Well in my first post I talked about the processes involved in...

Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Wed, Feb 20 2008
SQL Server 2008 – iFTS New features

In the previous post I talked about Full Text in general. I will now talk about whats new in SQL Server 2008. I would categorise the new features into Performance, Manageability and Transparency. So what’s new in SQL Server 2008, well we have, 1. Full Text Indexes are stored in the database 2. Full Text...

Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Wed, Feb 20 2008
SQL Server 2008 - CTP6 is now available

The next CTP of SQL Serve 2008 is now available for download. Whats different about this CTP from the others, apart from the new features which there are a lot, is there is a bug bash contest that is opening. Simply put the people that raise the most nonduplicate reproducible bugs on CTP6 in the next...

Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Tue, Feb 19 2008
SQL Server 2008 – iFTS Introduction

This is the first of a series of posts on the new Integrated Full Text feature in SQL Server 2008. This is one of my favourite features which I’ve had to keep stum about for quite a while. Firstly an introduction to full text. Full text is the feature in SQL Server that allows you to search text content...

Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Tue, Feb 19 2008
Office 2007 iFilters are now available

The ifilters needed to index office 2007 documents are now available for download from here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=60C92A37-719C-4077-B5C6-CAC34F4227CC&displaylang=en At the time of writing some of the related KB articles aren't available. If you use full text...

Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Tue, Dec 18 2007

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