We are designing a scenario in which we will have a central publisher and several subscribers in a server to server environment using Merge replication. We also will have a fulltext index for one of the tables being replicated and synchronized. What are your recommendations for the index? Would auto change tracking reduce the impact? We are building for a possible 1 billion row table but do not anticipate more than 100K rows at any time of replication.
One of the table that is in a merge replication somehow is missing anindex. Strangely, only the table in one of the subscriber of the mergereplication is missing the index; another subscriber and the publisherof the merge replication don't have this problem.How should I add the missing index back to that table? My understandingis that making structural change on a table that is inmerge-replication is different from making change on a table that isnot merge-replicated. For example, when we need to add a column into atable that is being merge-replicated, we must add the column bychanging the attributes in the properties of the published article(table) instead of simply using CREATE INDEX command. I am wonderingwhether there is a similar restriction on adding an index onto a tablethat is merge replicated.I have already added the index back to the table anyway. I am askinghere just in case doing this may get me into a problem later on.Thanks in advance for any info.Jay Chan
We are currently attempting to (Merge) replicate a database between 2 servers; distributor and subscriber. Apparently there are no Primary Keys in the database, and without the input of the developers, we can only assume that data integrity must be maintained by the application and the database is somewhat generic. In any case, what we are experiencing is that when we attempt to replicate, and you may know, you need PKs. Without any, SQL Server has utilized it's own (Row GUIDs). The Snapshot worked fine, but the merge agent reports error 1505.
The error is "CREATE UNIQUE INDEX terminated because a duplicate key was found for index ID %d. Most significant primary key is '%S_KEY'."
The fix and workaround are SP2 and deselecting Unique in the index propoerties of the index raising the error. We already had SP2 on the system. Tried the other and still the same issue occurs.
Microsoft's Knowledgebase has nothing. Any suggestions or fixes would be greatly appreciated.
I've got fresh Installed SQLExpress 2005 Adv. with a following: WinXP Pro, Developer PC, Admin/Full rights, Antivirus PC-Cilin was switched off for the installation.Enable User Instance - 0 (clear check box during installation)SQL Collation: Dictionary order case sensetive for1252 Char setSELECT @@language: us_englishcreate fulltext catalog testAPFullTextcatalog, Sp_help_FullText_catalogs: 5 testAPFullTextcatalog C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL.1MSSQLFTData estAPFullTextcatalog 0 0create unique index indexName_Comment on dbo.FullTextSearchTestTable(RecordID) sp_configure: allow updates 0 1 0 0 clr enabled 0 1 0 0 cross db ownership chaining 0 1 0 0 default language 0 9999 0 0 max text repl size (B) 0 2147483647 65536 65536 nested triggers 0 1 1 1 remote access 0 1 1 1 remote admin connections 0 1 0 0 remote login timeout (s) 0 2147483647 20 20 remote proc trans 0 1 0 0 remote query timeout (s) 0 2147483647 600 600 server trigger recursion 0 1 1 1 show advanced options 0 1 0 0 user instances enabled 0 1 0 0 user options 0 32767 0 0CREATE FULLTEXT INDEX ON dbo.FullTextSearchTestTable(Comment) KEY INDEX indexName_Comment ON testAPFullTextcatalog WITH CHANGE_TRACKING AUTO Result: Informational: No full-text supported languages found. Informational: No full-text supported languages found. Msg 7680, Level 16, State 1, Line 1Default full-text index language is not a language supported by full-text search.
I couldn't overcome the issue. Please help.
Alexei
P.S. May be Important: During installation (on Management Studio Express installation stage) a had to click twice the "Ignore" button for the following popUp message: "Could not write value to key: SoftwareClasses.xdropenWithProgIdsShared - verify, if you have sufficient access to hot key or contact your support.
I'm about ready to smash my computer. I've installed SQL Server 2005 Express Edition with Advanced Services on Win XP Pro SP2. I made sure to enable the Fulltext service at install. Installed to the default instance name, and made sure the fulltext service is running from the CM. I made sure to enable full text indexing on my database from the properties window. I can create the fulltext catalog, but not the index!
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create fulltext index on [person.contact] (Lastname)
key index [PK_Person.Contact] on myfulltextcatalog
Informational: No full-text supported languages found.
Informational: No full-text supported languages found.
Msg 7680, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Default full-text index language is not a language supported by full-text search.
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select * from sys.fulltext_catalogs
returns the catalog
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sp_fulltext_service 'update_languages'
Informational: No full-text supported languages found.
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select @@language
us_english
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select * from sys.fulltext_languages
Returns an empty table
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SELECT * FROM sys.configurations
ORDER BY name ;
1126 default full-text language 1033 0 2147483647 1033 default full-text language 1 1
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Does anyone have any idea what's going on? I've already removed and re-installed a couple of times to different directories, used different instance names, and still no luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Hello all,I'm wanting to do a CONTAINS query on fields that belong to two seperate tables. So, for example, this is what I'd *like* to do :SELECT ci.itemNameFROM Content_Items ciINNER JOIN Content_Pages AS cp ON ci.contentItemId = cp.contentItemIdINNER JOIN FREETEXTTABLE(Content_Items, (ci.title, cp.pageText), @searchString) AS ft ON ci.contentItemId = ft.[KEY]However, this will not work, since SQL Server won't let you do fulltext queries against more then one table.So my idea is to create a view that combines my Content_Items table with the desired column from my Content_Pages table. I would then create a fulltext index on this view, and do fulltext queries against it.It seems like this should work. However, when I try to create a fulltext index on my newly-created view, I get this error :A unique column must be defined on this table/view.How do I create a unique column within a view?Also, will my approach work, or will it have unintended consequences? I'm using this as part of a search component in my software, so it has to perform reasonably well.
Hello, i have a database with about 300.000 entries. The database gets about 30 new entries every day. The Database has an FulltextIndex on several columns. This FulltextIndex will be updated every night. But now i have found out, that the fulltextsearch doesn't work anymore for all entries that where added after April 2006. When i for example make following sql-statementSELECT id,date FROM MyTable WHERE (CONTAINS((columnA),' "mykeyword" '))
i only get results that have a date after April 2006 (although there are matching entries after that date). What can the reason for that be? According to Management Studio the last Update of the FulltextCatalog has been made on 1st of December 2007. Everything looks normal and I didn't find any logs that are saying that there has been any errors. Where do I have to look to be sure if the FullTextIndex does work? Specs: SQL Server 2005 Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 9.00.1399.00Microsoft Analysis Services-Clienttools 2005.090.1399.00Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2000.086.3959.00 (srv03_sp2_rtm.070216-1710)Microsoft MSXML 2.6 3.0 6.0 Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.3790.3959Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0.50727.832Operating System 5.2.3790
SQL Server 2005: Anyone know how best to rewrite this SQL string to perform a weighted search on my table? here's my code: SQL="SELECT RecipeName FROM recipeList WHERE FREETEXT(*,'ISABOUT " & ing01 & " WEIGHT (.1) or " & ing02 & " WEIGHT (.2) or " & ing03 & " WEIGHT (.3) or " & ing04 & " WEIGHT (.4) or " & ing05 & " WEIGHT (.5)')" the idea is to get a list of recipes most pertinant to the ingredients entered. table 'recipeList' contains the ingredients in several columns. so column 2 might say '5oz of flour', column 2 - '2oz butter' etc.
at the moment it returns the correct recipes but not in the right order. If I use 'CONTAINS' it returns nothing. hope that's not too vague!
I'm wanting to do a CONTAINS query on fields that belong to two seperate tables. So, for example, this is what I'd *like* to do :
SELECT ci.itemName FROM Content_Items ci INNER JOIN Content_Pages AS cp ON ci.contentItemId = cp.contentItemId INNER JOIN FREETEXTTABLE(Content_Items, (ci.title, cp.pageText), @searchString) AS ft ON ci.contentItemId = ft.[KEY]
However, this will not work, since SQL Server won't let you do fulltext queries against more then one table.
So my idea is to create a view that combines my Content_Items table with the desired column from my Content_Pages table. I would then create a fulltext index on this view, and do fulltext queries against it.
It seems like this should work. However, when I try to create a fulltext index on my newly-created view, I get this error : A unique column must be defined on this table/view.
How do I create a unique column within a view?
Also, will my approach work, or will it have unintended consequences? I'm using this as part of a search component in my software, so it has to perform reasonably well.
I just tried to backup a database I recently deployed to to SQL Server 2005 box, and got the following error:
The backup of full-text catalog 'myCatalog' is not permitted because it is not online. Check errorlog file for the reason that full-text catalog became offline and bring it online. Or BACKUP can be performed by using the FILEGROUP or FILE clauses to restrict the selection to include only online data.
I don't need the index so I tried to drop it with both:
DROP fulltext catalog 'myCatalog'
and
DROP catalog 'myCatalog'
but both give me a syntax error.
How can I get rid of this index so I can backup my database?
I'm wanting to do a CONTAINS query on fields that belong to two seperate tables. So, for example, this is what I'd *like* to do :
SELECT ci.itemName FROM Content_Items ci INNER JOIN Content_Pages AS cp ON ci.contentItemId = cp.contentItemId INNER JOIN FREETEXTTABLE(Content_Items, (ci.title, cp.pageText), @searchString) AS ft ON ci.contentItemId = ft.[KEY]
However, this will not work, since SQL Server won't let you do fulltext queries against more then one table.
So my idea is to create a view that combines my Content_Items table with the desired column from my Content_Pages table. I would then create a fulltext index on this view, and do fulltext queries against it.
It seems like this should work. However, when I try to create a fulltext index on my newly-created view, I get this error : A unique column must be defined on this table/view.
How do I create a unique column within a view?
Also, will my approach work, or will it have unintended consequences? I'm using this as part of a search component in my software, so it has to perform reasonably well.
Our production DBs are SQL Server 2000(Enterprise Edition) on Windows2003. Can anybody tell me how can I check whether a table has a FullText Index or not?
I am running a DB with 250Gb of documents, the fulltext index just keeps growing and growing. The files in the MssearchCatalogDir folder is currently taking up 106Gb, it was only 74Gb this morning. The full text catalog size property says its only 53.6Gb and this is remaining steady while the files in the MssearchCatalogDir folder seem to be balloning out of control. I ran a reorg on the fulltext catalog and it did not alter the file space (actually increased it).
There is one *.ci file that is doing most of the growing, its about three times as big as the second biggest one and is expanding before my eyes.
Should I have turned population off when I did the reorg?
Manamgement studio has an Optimize catalog option on the fulltext catalog properties dialog, is this different from a fulltext catalog reorg? Should I run this.
Should I run a shrink file on the filegroup containing the fulltext catalog (the filegroup itself is very small, all the space is in the MssearchCatalogDir folder)?
I have 140Gb left on this drive, is it just going to keep on expanding until I'm out of room, I just dont know what I should do.
Abit more info.....
I was rebuilding the index from scratch (needed to move it to another filegroup).
When I first started the rebuild, msftesql.exe and msftefd.exe were both taking alot of cpu and the overall cpu usage was high. Now after 12 hours, only msftesql.exe is running and is taking up 5-10% cpu. Could it be that the rebuild is not complete yet? Although the Item Count property of the full text catalog does seem to indicate that all documents have been processed, the processes keeps running and disk space keeps going down.
I have a problem restoring a Read-Only filegroup in a database. I've restored the Read/Write filegroups first without any problem.
Then, I am able to recover Read-Only filegroups which do not contain fulltext indexes with the command : RESTORE DATABASE GSM FILEGROUP = 'FG_RO_20080214' WITH RECOVERY
However, for filegroups containing FullText indexes (Fulltext indexes are in the same filegroup as data used for this index), I always get the following error :
Server: Msg 3149, Level 16, State 6, Line 1 The file or filegroup "sysft_CAT_SM_20080127" is not in a valid state for the "Recover Data Only" option to be used. Only secondary files in the OFFLINE or RECOVERY_PENDING state can be processed. Server: Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 RESTORE DATABASE is terminating abnormally.
If I'm looking at sys.database_files catalog view, I can see the following name type_desc state_desc ------------------------ ----------- ----------------- sysft_CAT_MS_20080127 FULLTEXT RECOVERY_PENDING
For demonstration I created a fulltext index on table employee in Northwind database.
The following query gives an error:
SELECT * FROM employees WHERE CONTAINS (FirstName, 'Barbe')
Replacing 'Barbe' by 'Barb' or other words it works fine.
The error message is (I have a french version of SQL installed, here the translation: "A clause in the query contains only ignored words" Une clause de la requête ne contient que des mots ignorés)
Language for wordbreak in fulltext index is French and the error happens only with French, with English it works.
How can i enable my fulltex change-tracking and update-index in my table? I recreated my fulltext catalog and start the full population, but although my fulltext index status shows active, my full-text change-tracking and the update index were disabled. - and I don't know how to enable them. Thanks in advance
I am using SSIS to replace set of tables daily. One of the table has primary, unique, foreign keys and full-text index. Before truncating, I am dropping the foreign key constraints (to truncate the parent table), truncating the tables and recreating the foreign keys.
I have few questions:
1) Do I need to drop and recreate the unique key as well? (I am not dropping the primary key) - Unique key is identity column created just for the full-text indexing since it was mentioned that key on integer is better than key on varchar and my pk is a varchar.
2) Do I need to drop and recreate the full-text index or just rebuild/repopulate it every time the table is loaded.
This is the first time i am using full text index and I was able to learn a lot about it from the sites. I would like to understand the correct approach while loading the tables.
We have a table that is Full Text Search index enabled on one column.This table has 200 lakhs of rows(20000000) . ContainsTable() function is searching data with in these 200 lakhs of rows(20000000), if any new rows are inserted then the ContainsTable is not going to search in these recent inserted rows.
We observed when we try for a data to search. it is returning the rows till the rows that are inserted date is less than 30th of march 2012. but not searching in the records that are created after April month , if even the data we are searching is available .
TableFulltextItemCount is around 2.2 crores.
Then we done rebuilt the FT catalog Index. then the TableFulltextItemCount became 0.Again we run the containstable query ,but still it is not getting results.
As the no of rows are very more . so i am not able to show the actual rows from which the data is not coming.
the below query gives 2 results that are from actual base table
HTML Code: select * from g_case_action_log where cas_details like '%235355%' and product_id = 38810
To search for the same above word using FTS,I have used the query as below
HTML Code: SELECT Distinct top 50 cal.case_id,cal.cas_details From g_case_action_log cal (READUNCOMMITTED)inner join containstable(es.g_case_action_log, cas_details, ' ("235355" OR "<br>235355" OR "235355<br> ") ') as key_tbl on cal.log_id = key_tbl.[key] Where cal.product_id = 38810 ORDER By cal.case_id DESC
I have attached one sql script file for your ref that contains create logic and index schema properties
Hello.. When I used Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Management Studio Express to Create FULL TEXT INDEX by this code:
CREATE FULLTEXT INDEX ON txtfilestbl(txtfile) KEY INDEX PK_txtfilestbl ON ForumsArchiveLibCtlg WITH CHANGE_TRACKING AUTO
It returns this ERR MSG:
Informational: No full-text supported languages found. Informational: No full-text supported languages found. Msg 7680, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Default full-text index language is not a language supported by full-text search.
I Use same this code to create FULL TEXT INDEX by using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Management Studio, and it was working properly. What I have to do?
I know that adding a column using ALTER TABLE to add a column automatically allows SQLSERVER 2005 to replicate the schema changes to the subscribers, however, I would like to add a new column to an existing article that is being used for merge replication, however, I don't want this column to be replicated. Re-initialising the subscriptions is not a option. Help would be appreciated.
I am working on bringing our disaster recovery site to be a live site. Currently we replicate to one of out servers (server B) with merge replication (from server A). Server A also does one way transactional replication form some table to several other servers including servers at the DR site.
This setup is not going to be fast enough for what we need so I am wondering if a table is receiving merge replication will the merge updates also replicate down the transaction path??
Example... Server B update a row and merges to Server A. With this update them replicate (via transactional) to Server C??
I'm getting the following error on our merge contents table in one of our DBs:
Msg 8952, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Table error: Database 'ks241', index 'MSmerge_contents.nc3MSmerge_contents' (ID 1950682047) (index ID 3). Extra or invalid key for the keys: Msg 8956, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Index row (1:1893:42) with values (partchangegen = NULL and tablenick = 17665001 and rowguid = AEAE7256-F571-478E-B2B4-D142B47C38C1) points to the data row identified by (). Msg 8952, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Table error: Database 'ks241', index 'MSmerge_contents.nc3MSmerge_contents' (ID 1950682047) (index ID 3). Extra or invalid key for the keys: Msg 8956, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Index row (1:1893:66) with values (partchangegen = NULL and tablenick = 17665001 and rowguid = B94F1591-33B0-4625-A269-DB9B8B05BCCE) points to the data row identified by (). CHECKTABLE found 0 allocation errors and 2 consistency errors in table 'MSmerge_contents' (object ID 1950682047). repair_fast is the minimum repair level for the errors found by DBCC CHECKTABLE (ks241.dbo.MSmerge_contents ).
There are no other corruption issues on the server that I can find. I do not believe there are any current hardware issues, though I am not on site.
What would be the best way to resolve this? Is recreating or defrag/rebuild the index an option, here? Or can I just run a repair on this? Since it's a merge table, I'm a little gun shy, having limited experience with replication.
Thanks.
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Hi everbody, I setup the Merge Replication , it is working perfectly. But i have one problem now it is updating both ways. I nedd one way. Any body tell me which parameter i have to change.
My production box is running on NT4.0,SP6, SQL Server7.0,SP2. We implemented Merge replication. Working fine last 7 months. Last weekend i disabled replication, Successfully removed Distributor and Publishor. After that try add new fileds but won't allowed me. It's give the error message. I Also found Some Conflict_tables found almost 20 tables. All system Tables. Can delete these these tables, if i delete any problem my database. I added filelds many times but this time i got errors.
I have just installed replication on our production server to Merge Replicate with a Laptop server that will travel from time to time. I have now noticed that we cannot add or change any fields or attributes on the tables which are being replicated (which are all tables in the DB). This is a problem because we are changing and adding columns all of the time. Is there a way around this issue like shutting down the replication service or something? I have been unsuccessful in finding a way around this other than removing replication while we make changes.
I have implemented a Merger replication on our development server and I get a fillowing error when I try to update one of the table in publisher. "Transaction cannot start while in firehose mode"
Hi, I read some where that replication has two types conflict resolution, 1. row based and 2. Column based... If I am right... Can any one point me how to find out this option and how to set it up....
I have a merge replication going between 4 servers. The problem is when ever I do some BCP transfer to one of the tables in one of the servers. It puts the data in that table. But that Data does not get replicated to any other server like it should.
Please Advice on what to do. Is there any option I am forgetting to set or something.
I have successfully tried merge replication on single server with 2 databases. now i want to do the same with different servers, when i create pull subcription on server 2 which user account should I use? it is giving log in failure i tried using windows admin account and also the 'sa' account.
I have posted this earlier and I am re-posting it simplifying what I had said.
The scenario is:
I have two sql server database instances with the same database schema and all. However, both of them have different data. I have not set them for replication at all. Now, I want to do merge replication between them such that the data between them could be syncronized.
When I do pull merge subscription I have two choices - 1.Bringing schema and data to subscriber from publisher
2.Not bringing the schema and data from publisher to subscriber.
Obviously, I chose the second choice. But upon syncronizing I dont see any data from publisher coming to subscriber and vice-versa. If I add new data to publisher and do syncronization, I can see ONLY the new data created after the replication setup in subscriber. If I add new data to subscriber and do syncronization then the new data is removed from subscriber and not propagated to publisher.
I have just set up Merge replication, I have two servers, server A and server B, the merge replication worked successfully but I don't quite sure which databases should or should not replicated? If not, what other methods should I use?
I would really appreciated any comments or advice out there!
