Can't delete full text catalog on clustered sql serer 2000

Basically SQL Server has allowed me to create a full text catalog on a drive
which is not part of the cluster's shared resources, and I believe doesn't
exist either (I not familiar with clustering at all).
Now the problem is that it now won't let me remove this full text catalog,
giving me the error that it can't *create* a full text catalog on a disk
which isn't part of the cluster's shared resources. How can I delete it?
Ian.Ian,
Most un-usual! As by design, you should be only able to create FT Catalogs
on the shard drive in a clustered environment. How did you do this? If it
can be reproduced, it should be filed as a bug. Have you tried the
following:
use <your_database_name>
go
exec sp_fulltext_catalog '<Your_FT_Catalog_Name>','drop'
go
If not, try it. If it fails, please post the error that it returns. If it
does fail, you may have to try:
EXEC sp_fulltext_service 'clean_up'
if this too fails, I have some code I can email you directly code (the code
is not for the faint-of-heart) that can get you out of this "catch-22"
situation.
Thanks,
John
--
SQL Full Text Search Blog
http://spaces.msn.com/members/jtkane/
"Ian" <Ixpah@.newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
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> Basically SQL Server has allowed me to create a full text catalog on a
drive
> which is not part of the cluster's shared resources, and I believe doesn't
> exist either (I not familiar with clustering at all).
> Now the problem is that it now won't let me remove this full text catalog,
> giving me the error that it can't *create* a full text catalog on a disk
> which isn't part of the cluster's shared resources. How can I delete it?
> Ian.
>|||Hello Ian,
To understsand the issue better, I'd like to know the exact steps you
create and delete the full text catalog. What is the exact error message
you encountered?
Regards,
Peter Yang
MCSE2000/2003, MCSA, MCDBA
Microsoft Online Partner Support
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| Basically SQL Server has allowed me to create a full text catalog on a
drive
| which is not part of the cluster's shared resources, and I believe
doesn't
| exist either (I not familiar with clustering at all).
|
| Now the problem is that it now won't let me remove this full text
catalog,
| giving me the error that it can't *create* a full text catalog on a disk
| which isn't part of the cluster's shared resources. How can I delete it?
|
| Ian.
|
|
||||I used a script which was very similiar (if not the same) as this:
exec sp_fulltext_database 'enable'
exec sp_fulltext_catalog 'popall_ft','create'
exec sp_fulltext_table 'dbo. articles','create','popall_ft','pk__arti
cles'
exec sp_fulltext_column 'dbo.articles','comment','add'
exec sp_fulltext_table 'dbo.articles','activate'
exec sp_fulltext_table 'dbo.articles','start_change_tracking'
exec sp_fulltext_table 'dbo. articles','start_background_updateindex'
Unfortunately I tried disabling/enabling full text search in order to try
and fix this problem and now can't re-enable it due to the following error:
Server: Msg 7627, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sp_fulltext_database, Line 61
Full-text catalog in directory 'e:\mssql\ftdata' for clustered server cannot
be created. Only directories on a disk in the cluster group of the server
can be used.
Ian.
"Peter Yang [MSFT]" <petery@.online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello Ian,
> To understsand the issue better, I'd like to know the exact steps you
> create and delete the full text catalog. What is the exact error message
> you encountered?
> Regards,
> Peter Yang
> MCSE2000/2003, MCSA, MCDBA
> Microsoft Online Partner Support
>
> --
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> | Basically SQL Server has allowed me to create a full text catalog on a
> drive
> | which is not part of the cluster's shared resources, and I believe
> doesn't
> | exist either (I not familiar with clustering at all).
> |
> | Now the problem is that it now won't let me remove this full text
> catalog,
> | giving me the error that it can't *create* a full text catalog on a disk
> | which isn't part of the cluster's shared resources. How can I delete it?
> |
> | Ian.
> |
> |
> |
>|||Hi lan,
Thanks for your posting!
Peter Yang is OOF and I am his backup!
From your descriptions, I understood that you would like to create a
full-text index catalog, which is on a disk on which the SQL Server
resource is not dependant. In SQL Server 2000 virtual server instance, you
will have to add the disk as a dependency to the SQL Server resource in the
Cluster Administrator.
Refer to the Knowledge Base article for more information and how to add the
disk as a dependency
INF: Creating Databases or Changing Disk File Locations on a Shared Cluster
Drive on Which SQL Server 2000 was not Originally Installed
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=295732
Thank you for your patience and corporation. If you have any questions or
concerns, don't hesitate to let me know. We are always here to be of
assistance!
Sincerely yours,
Michael Cheng
Microsoft Online Partner Support
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This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.|||I have *already* created a full text catalog on a drive which isn't part of
the cluster and probably doesn't exist either. This is the problem I'm
experiencing: not able to delete it or enable full text search because of
it.
I think I've worked out a way round the problem of re-enabling full text
search for the database by changing the path column in the
sysfulltextcatalogs table to a clustered resource. Hopefully once ft is
re-enabled I can then either delete the catalog or use it as is.
Ian.
"Michael Cheng [MSFT]" <v-mingqc@.online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi lan,
> Thanks for your posting!
> Peter Yang is OOF and I am his backup!
> From your descriptions, I understood that you would like to create a
> full-text index catalog, which is on a disk on which the SQL Server
> resource is not dependant. In SQL Server 2000 virtual server instance, you
> will have to add the disk as a dependency to the SQL Server resource in
> the
> Cluster Administrator.
> Refer to the Knowledge Base article for more information and how to add
> the
> disk as a dependency
> INF: Creating Databases or Changing Disk File Locations on a Shared
> Cluster
> Drive on Which SQL Server 2000 was not Originally Installed
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=295732
> Thank you for your patience and corporation. If you have any questions or
> concerns, don't hesitate to let me know. We are always here to be of
> assistance!
>
> Sincerely yours,
> Michael Cheng
> Microsoft Online Partner Support
> When responding to posts, please "Reply to Group" via your newsreader so
> that others may learn and benefit from your issue.
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