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Cannot use a CONTAINS or FREETEXT predicate on table or indexed view because it is not full-text indexed

I am getting following error in my SQL server 2008 R2 database:

Cannot use a CONTAINS or FREETEXT predicate on table or indexed view ‘tblArmy’ because it is not full-text indexed.

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Answer

  1. Make sure you have full-text search feature installed.

Full-Text Search setup

  1. Create full-text search catalog (if needed)

    First check if any catalog already exists

      select *
      from sys.fulltext_catalogs
    

    If no catalog is found create one

      use [DatabaseName]
      create fulltext catalog FullTextCatalog as default
    

    you can verify that the catalog was created in the same way as above

  2. Create full-text search index.

      create fulltext index on Production.ProductDescription(Description)
      key index PK_ProductDescription_ProductDescriptionID
    

    Before you create the index, make sure:
    – you don’t already have full-text search index on the table as only one full-text search index allowed on a table
    – a unique index exists on the table. The index must be based on single-key column, that does not allow NULL.
    – full-text catalog exists. You have to specify full-text catalog name explicitly if there is no default full-text catalog.

You can do step 2 and 3 in SQL Sever Management Studio. In object explorer, right click on a table, select Full-Text index menu item and then Define Full-Text Index... sub-menu item. Full-Text indexing wizard will guide you through the process. It will also create a full-text search catalog for you if you don’t have any yet.

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You can find more info at MSDN

After following the steps you need a few minutes so that the full text search index is created (this depends on the size of the table and column data)

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