I am new with SQL Server 2005. I have found out that when rebuilding a catalog it also does a mass merge. It used to do this step at midnight in prior version. So I decided to break up the rebuilding by first droping and then creating the catalog:
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1) exec sp_fulltext_catalog catalog_abc123, drop
2) exec sp_fulltext_catalog catalog_abc123, create
3) ALTER FULLTEXT CATALOG catalog_abc123
REBUILD WITH ACCENT_SENSITIVITY=ON
4) At midnight run:
ALTER FULLTEXT CATALOG catalog_abc123
REORGANIZE
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But I got an error in setp #1 since the table for this catalog has an index. I have just finished populating the table. What's the best way to solve this problem?
Thanks,

Fari