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Check if full-text search is enabled

Recently I needed to check whether full-text search functionality is installed and enabled on a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 database.

An easy way to do this is by using the FullTextServiceProperty property. FullTextServiceProperty is a T-SQL function which return information about full-text service installed on the related Microsoft SQL Server instance. You can use FullTextServiceProperty t-sql function especially to check whether fulltext search component is installed on the current SQL Server instance and get the status of the full-text service.

FullTextServiceProperty function uses the property name as an input parameter.

There are 2 properties available that can be used with fulltextserviceproperty function:

  • IsFullTextInstalled : If you pass this property as an input to the FullTextServiceProperty the returned value will be an indicator whether full-text component is installed on the related instance of Microsoft SQL Server instance. Possible return values are 1, 0 and NULL values.
  • If FullTextServiceProperty function combined with IsFullTextInstalled parameter returns 1, this indicated that Full-text is installed. If return value is 0 then full-text service is not installed on the SQL Server.

A sample:

   1:  SELECT FullTextServiceProperty('IsFullTextInstalled')


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