Full-Text Search Troubleshooting

The first question you should ask yourself when you have a problem with SQL FTS is this: Is the problem with searching or with indexing? To help you make this determination, Microsoft has included three DMVs in SQL Server 2012:

Image sys.dm_fts_index_keywords

Image sys.dm_fts_index_keywords_by_document

Image sys.dm_fts_parser

The first two DMVs display the contents of your full-text index. The first DMV returns the following columns: ...

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