DROP FULLTEXT INDEX (Transact-SQL)

**APPLIES TO:** SQL Server (starting with 2008) Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Data Warehouse Parallel Data Warehouse

Removes a full-text index from a specified table or indexed view.

Transact-SQL Syntax Conventions

Syntax

  
DROP FULLTEXT INDEX ON table_name  

Arguments

table_name
Is the name of the table or indexed view containing the full-text index to be removed.

Remarks

You do not need to drop all columns from the full-text index before using the DROP FULLTEXT INDEX command.

Permissions

The user must have ALTER permission on the table or indexed view, or be a member of the sysadmin fixed server role, or db_owner or db_ddladmin fixed database roles.

Examples

The following example drops the full-text index that exists on the JobCandidate table.

USE AdventureWorks2012;  
GO  
DROP FULLTEXT INDEX ON HumanResources.JobCandidate;  
GO  

See Also

sys.fulltext_indexes (Transact-SQL)
ALTER FULLTEXT INDEX (Transact-SQL)
CREATE FULLTEXT INDEX (Transact-SQL)
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