Why the Full-Text indexing option is greyed out?

Question

I installed SQL Server 2008 Express with Advanced Services, but when I try to create a new database, the option Full-Text indexing is greyed out, I believe the full-text indexin

Answer 1

Is the service started? I think a default install of 2008 Express has FTS stopped.

In 2005 Express (IIRC) you had to make the catalogs manually, rather than through managmement studio; you could try that and see if you get an error:

use MyDatabaseName
go
EXEC sp_fulltext_database 'enable'
go
CREATE FULLTEXT CATALOG MyFullTextCatalog

If you need to manually create the indexes you can do something like:

CREATE FULLTEXT INDEX ON MyDatabaseName.dbo.MyTableToSearch
(
MySearchColumn
Language 1033
)
KEY INDEX MyCurrentIndex;