Indexing Service and Full Text Search?

I have a solutions database I am adding Full Text Search to.
Unfortunately, a huge part of the "solutions" resides on a shared lan in the
form of attachments.
I've used FTS before, and I've used Index server before (though never on
files located remotely)
Are there any resources on using both FTS and the Indexing Service together?
I thought I read that it was possible to run all the queries through SQL
server and that SQL server could go out and talk to the Indexing service
behind the sceens.
- thanks
Jack
Jack.fruhatsolcorpdotcom
you can't really use them together in any meaningful way. Your best bet is
to either index everything using IS by spitting your content out row by row
into the file system naming each file after the pk. This way you can track
which row your hits belong to.
Please refer to this link for more info on how to do this.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...utp ut=gplain
Alternatively you could push all of your documents into the database.
However it is difficult to search on properties this way. For instance you
can search on documents which contain the word microsoft and are greater
than a certain date, but you have to return the entire results set from
MSSearch and then filter by date. For large row sets this can be a very
expensive operation.
Another option is to add a linked server to index server and then query it
this way, however this is not scalable.
You also get better performance by migrating your content on the LAN
locally, however the performance hit is not that significant while querying,
but is significant when indexing.
Hilary Cotter
Looking for a SQL Server replication book?
http://www.nwsu.com/0974973602.html
"Jack" <jack.fruhReplacewith@.Solcorp.com> wrote in message
news:uo8VMpKsEHA.624@.TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> I have a solutions database I am adding Full Text Search to.
> Unfortunately, a huge part of the "solutions" resides on a shared lan in
the
> form of attachments.
> I've used FTS before, and I've used Index server before (though never on
> files located remotely)
> Are there any resources on using both FTS and the Indexing Service
together?
> I thought I read that it was possible to run all the queries through SQL
> server and that SQL server could go out and talk to the Indexing service
> behind the sceens.
> - thanks
> Jack
> Jack.fruhatsolcorpdotcom
>