Hi,
I have a databse which is full text enabled. The SQL version is 2008 R2. There is one table in the database and that table has a varbinary(max) field which is full text indexed. The database size is around 7 GB and the number of rows approx 32,000.
I have run the full text index to complete a full population and then carry on with change tracking auto.
At the moment the full text catalog populate status is Processing Notifications. It stays on this status for hours before eventually falling to Idle.
My question is could someone explain what the processing notifications actually means in the sense of full text indexing and why it appears? I have 12 databases set up exactly the same way, different sizes but none bigger than 10GB as they are all SQL 2008 Express. They all contain one table with exactly the same fields as each other and the same data repeated (this is in a test environment) the only difference is there will be more rows in some of the tables in each database than others. I didn't get the problem of the populat status hanging on Processing Notifications so I am at a loss to work out why it would on some but not on others.
I have tried googling this but can't find much information at all just one or two pages that really have been of no help to me.
Any help would be appreciated, even just a link to somewhere that explains this status and what I can do to speed it up.
Thanks
Paul