Upgrade database from SQL Server 2000 to 2005 -- and rebuild full-text indexes?

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...

Answer 1

Try it using SQL.

• CREATE FULLTEXT CATALOG
• ALTER FULLTEXT CATALOG

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.

Answer 2

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