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Posted - 2001-04-22 : 22:07:58
Carl writes "Hi Mr Guru,
I'm at my wits end now! I've got what I though would be a simple full text index for SQL Server 7 to deal with, but it's having extreme problems. I have a table, with a full text index built on a varchar (500) and varchar (70) column, there are around 90000 rows and to cut a long story short I'm querying the table with a CONTAINSTABLE however, if the server has to return anything more than around 1000 records it can take anything up to 2 minutes to do it! All I really need to know is whether this is normal or not - MS have a solution whereby you can call back the top n records, but this isn't appropriate for me since I need to count the records returned.

At this stage I could do with knowing whether I should invest in a bolt on indexer since I have an extra 400,000 records to add and if it can't cope with 90000 I dread to think what it will do with half a million! Any ideas much appreciated.

All the best."
   

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