Help with Full-Text Search

The online Full-Text Search Troubleshooter is designed to help you resolve problems you may encounter when using the Full-Text Search feature in Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2000.

Note  For international users of SQL Server Books Online, the text of the problems as well as the references to Knowledge Base articles appear in English and can be found on nonlocalized Web sites.

Common starting points for troubleshooting full-text search include:

• I have a problem using CONTAINS or FREETEXT.
  
  
• I can't enable databases for full-text search or full-text catalog creation.
  
  
• I have a problem with full-text indexing or populating full-text catalogs.
  
  
• Full-text indexing or searching performance is poor.
  
  
• I have a problem with full-text indexing documents in IMAGE columns.

To access troubleshooters online, see Viewing Online Troubleshooters and other PSS Web-Based Information.