Install SQL Server Full-Text Search on Linux

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08/23/2023

Applies to: SQL Server - Linux

The following steps install SQL Server Full-Text Search (mssql-server-fts) on Linux. Full-Text Search enables you to run full-text queries against character-based data in SQL Server tables. For known issues for this release, see the Release notes for SQL Server 2022 on Linux.

Note

Before installing SQL Server Full-Text Search, first install SQL Server. This configures the keys and repositories that you use when installing the mssql-server-fts package.

Install SQL Server Full-Text Search for your platform:

Use the following commands to install the mssql-server-fts on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

sudo yum install -y mssql-server-fts

If you already have mssql-server-fts installed, you can update to the latest version with the following commands:

sudo yum check-update
sudo yum update mssql-server-fts

If you need an offline installation, locate the Full-text Search package download in the Release notes. Then use the same offline installation steps described in the article Install SQL Server.

Use the following commands to install the mssql-server-fts on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.

sudo zypper install mssql-server-fts

If you already have mssql-server-fts installed, you can update to the latest version with the following commands:

sudo zypper refresh
sudo zypper update mssql-server-fts

If you need an offline installation, locate the Full-text Search package download in the Release notes. Then use the same offline installation steps described in the article Install SQL Server.

Use the following commands to install the mssql-server-fts on Ubuntu.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y mssql-server-fts

If you already have mssql-server-fts installed, you can update to the latest version with the following commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y mssql-server-fts

If you need an offline installation, locate the Full-text Search package download in the Release notes. Then use the same offline installation steps described in the article Install SQL Server.

Supported languages

Full-Text Search uses word breakers that determine how to identify individual words based on language. You can get a list of registered word breakers by querying the sys.fulltext_languages catalog view. Word breakers for the following languages are installed with SQL Server:

Language	Language ID
Neutral	0
Arabic	1025
Bengali (India)	1093
Bokmål	1044
Portuguese (Brazil)	1046
British English	2057
Bulgarian	1026
Catalan	1027
Chinese (Hong Kong SAR, PRC)	3076
Chinese (Macao SAR)	5124
Chinese (Singapore)	4100
Croatian	1050
Czech	1029
Danish	1030
Dutch	1043
English	1033
French	1036
German	1031
Greek	1032
Gujarati	1095
Hebrew	1037
Hindi	1081
Icelandic	1039
Indonesian	1057
Italian	1040
Japanese	1041
Kannada	1099
Korean	1042
Latvian	1062
Lithuanian	1063
Malay - Malaysia	1086
Malayalam	1100
Marathi	1102
Polish	1045
Portuguese	2070
Punjabi	1094
Romanian	1048
Russian	1049
Serbian (Cyrillic)	3098
Serbian (Latin)	2074
Simplified Chinese	2052
Slovak	1051
Slovenian	1060
Spanish	3082
Swedish	1053
Tamil	1097
Telugu	1098
Thai	1054
Traditional Chinese	1028
Turkish	1055
Ukrainian	1058
Urdu	1056
Vietnamese	1066

Filters

Full-Text Search also works with text stored in binary files. But in this case, an installed filter is required to process the file. For more information about filters, see Configure and Manage Filters for Search.

You can see a list of installed filters by calling sp_help_fulltext_system_components 'filter'. For SQL Server, the following filters are installed:

Component Name	Class ID	Version
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`.html`	E0CA5340-4534-11CF-B952-00AA0051FE20	12.0.6828.0
`.htt`	E0CA5340-4534-11CF-B952-00AA0051FE20	12.0.6828.0
`.htw`	E0CA5340-4534-11CF-B952-00AA0051FE20	12.0.6828.0
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`.i`	C1243CA0-BF96-11CD-B579-08002B30BFEB	12.0.6828.0
`.ibq`	C7310720-AC80-11D1-8DF3-00C04FB6EF4F	12.0.6828.0
`.ics`	C1243CA0-BF96-11CD-B579-08002B30BFEB	12.0.6828.0
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`.idq`	C1243CA0-BF96-11CD-B579-08002B30BFEB	12.0.6828.0
`.inc`	C7310720-AC80-11D1-8DF3-00C04FB6EF4F	12.0.6828.0
`.inf`	C7310720-AC80-11D1-8DF3-00C04FB6EF4F	12.0.6828.0
`.ini`	C7310720-AC80-11D1-8DF3-00C04FB6EF4F	12.0.6828.0
`.inl`	C1243CA0-BF96-11CD-B579-08002B30BFEB	12.0.6828.0
`.inx`	C7310720-AC80-11D1-8DF3-00C04FB6EF4F	12.0.6828.0
`.jav`	C1243CA0-BF96-11CD-B579-08002B30BFEB	12.0.6828.0
`.java`	C1243CA0-BF96-11CD-B579-08002B30BFEB	12.0.6828.0
`.js`	C7310720-AC80-11D1-8DF3-00C04FB6EF4F	12.0.6828.0
`.kci`	C1243CA0-BF96-11CD-B579-08002B30BFEB	12.0.6828.0
`.lgn`	C1243CA0-BF96-11CD-B579-08002B30BFEB	12.0.6828.0
`.log`	C7310720-AC80-11D1-8DF3-00C04FB6EF4F	12.0.6828.0
`.lst`	C1243CA0-BF96-11CD-B579-08002B30BFEB	12.0.6828.0
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`.mak`	C1243CA0-BF96-11CD-B579-08002B30BFEB	12.0.6828.0
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`.odc`	E0CA5340-4534-11CF-B952-00AA0051FE20	12.0.6828.0
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`.odl`	C1243CA0-BF96-11CD-B579-08002B30BFEB	12.0.6828.0
`.pkgdef`	C1243CA0-BF96-11CD-B579-08002B30BFEB	12.0.6828.0
`.pkgundef`	C1243CA0-BF96-11CD-B579-08002B30BFEB	12.0.6828.0
`.pl`	C7310720-AC80-11D1-8DF3-00C04FB6EF4F	12.0.6828.0
`.prc`	C1243CA0-BF96-11CD-B579-08002B30BFEB	12.0.6828.0
`.rc`	C7310720-AC80-11D1-8DF3-00C04FB6EF4F	12.0.6828.0
`.rc2`	C1243CA0-BF96-11CD-B579-08002B30BFEB	12.0.6828.0
`.rct`	C1243CA0-BF96-11CD-B579-08002B30BFEB	12.0.6828.0
`.reg`	C7310720-AC80-11D1-8DF3-00C04FB6EF4F	12.0.6828.0
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`.rul`	C1243CA0-BF96-11CD-B579-08002B30BFEB	12.0.6828.0
`.s`	C1243CA0-BF96-11CD-B579-08002B30BFEB	12.0.6828.0
`.scc`	C1243CA0-BF96-11CD-B579-08002B30BFEB	12.0.6828.0
`.shtm`	E0CA5340-4534-11CF-B952-00AA0051FE20	12.0.6828.0
`.shtml`	E0CA5340-4534-11CF-B952-00AA0051FE20	12.0.6828.0
`.snippet`	C1243CA0-BF96-11CD-B579-08002B30BFEB	12.0.6828.0
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Semantic search

Semantic Search builds on the Full-Text Search feature to extract and index statistically relevant key phrases. This feature enables you to query the meaning within documents in your database. It also helps to identify documents that are similar.

To use Semantic Search, you must first restore the Semantic Language Statistics database to your machine.

Use a tool, such as sqlcmd, to run the following Transact-SQL command on your Linux SQL Server instance. This command restores the Language Statistics database.

RESTORE DATABASE [semanticsdb]
FROM DISK = N'/opt/mssql/misc/semanticsdb.bak'
WITH FILE = 1,
    MOVE N'semanticsdb' TO N'/var/opt/mssql/data/semanticsDB.mdf',
    MOVE N'semanticsdb_log' TO N'/var/opt/mssql/data/semanticsdb_log.ldf',
    NOUNLOAD,
    STATS = 5
GO

Note

If necessary, update the paths in the previous RESTORE command to adjust for your configuration.

Run the following Transact-SQL command to register the semantic language statistics database.
```
EXEC sp_fulltext_semantic_register_language_statistics_db @dbname = N'semanticsdb';
GO
```

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