How do I enable? Full Text Search is installed in SQL Server 2014 Enterprise Edition but not enabled

Question

How can I enable Full Text Search in SQL Server 2014.

I've been searching the net for the last couple of hours, some posts about SQL Server 2012 said it's in the features during installation but I went there and I had no options to enabled it. I determined that it is definitely installed but not enabled running the following query:

SELECT SERVERPROPERTY('IsFullTextInstalled') AS IsFullTextInstalled,
       DatabaseProperty(DB_NAME(DB_ID()), 'IsFulltextEnabled') AS IsFulltextEnabled

Which returned:

IsFullTextInstalled=1
IsFullTextEnabled=0

Thanks!

Answer 1

You've got the "installed" part for the instance done. I believe "enabling" has to do with establishing full text search for specific databases within the instance, e.g., using T-SQL and AdventureWorks:

--create a full-text catalog
USE AdventureWorks;  
GO  
CREATE FULLTEXT CATALOG AdvWksDocFTCat;  

-- Ensure the table (Document in this example) has a unique, single-column, non-nullable index
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX ui_ukDoc ON Production.Document(DocumentID);  

-- Create a full-text index on the Document table
CREATE FULLTEXT INDEX ON Production.Document  
(  
    Document                         --Full-text index column name   
    TYPE COLUMN FileExtension    --Name of column that contains file type information
    Language 2057                 --2057 is the LCID for British English  
)  
KEY INDEX ui_ukDoc ON AdvWksDocFTCat --Unique index  
WITH CHANGE_TRACKING AUTO            --Population type;  
GO  

Please see the Microsoft article for more detail for this example: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/search/get-started-with-full-text-search

And the more generalized tutorial at: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/search/create-and-manage-full-text-indexes