Backup and Maintenance

Enabling Full Text Search

By default the text search of archived enquiries permits you to search on the Enquiry Title only. To enable a search on all the enquiry fields it is first necessary to enable Full Text Search on the database. This can only be done directly on the SQL database by the database administrator in your IT department. It cannot be done by using MiDatabank.

The following instructions are for a DBA (Database Administrator) using Microsoft SQL Server.

Instructions for Database Administrator

Create a Full-Text Catalog for the mi database that contains indexes for the following tables:

  • Enquiries
  • ResearchResults
  • EnquiryKeywords
  • EnquiryNotes

Include all available fields for the indexes on the above tables.

Ensure that you populate the catalog, and set an appropriate population schedule for the catalog (e.g. every night at 2am).

Once FTS has been enabled, clicking on Search in the Enquiry Manager application will display a window titled 'Search Enquiries (Full Text Search Enabled)' that contains a checkbox called 'Search All Fields' on the 'Text' tab as shown below:

 

 

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