Shawson's Code Blog » sql server agent http://codeblog.shawson.co.uk development notes for my failing memory Tue, 15 May 2012 15:22:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Full Text Reindex, scheduled job has no steps! http://codeblog.shawson.co.uk/full-text-reindex-scheduled-job-has-no-steps/ http://codeblog.shawson.co.uk/full-text-reindex-scheduled-job-has-no-steps/#comments Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:26:32 +0000 shawson http://www.shawson.co.uk/codeblog/?p=446
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    • ]]>     We have a SQL Server 2005 box, on which we have a database which has a full text index. The database gets a massive refresh of its data each night, meaning the full text index needs rebuilding. I added a schedule to my full text index (Databases > [DBName] > Storage > Full Text Catalogs > Right click your index – click properties > Population Schedule) and this created me a new job (SQL Server Agent > Jobs) but when i opened it up and went to steps, nothing was there!  If i tried running the job it would fail because there are no steps!

    I found this as a documented bug in the initial release candidate of sql 2005 (since fixed in the service packs) on the microsoft connect site, and added a workaround – basically just add your own job, using the following sql (which i found on msdn) to rebuild your index;

    ALTER FULLTEXT CATALOG [catalogue_name] REBUILD;

    Of course, this is only a workaround until we can get the latest service pack installed.

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