drop-fulltext-catalog-transact-sql.md

title	DROP FULLTEXT CATALOG (Transact-SQL)
description	DROP FULLTEXT CATALOG (Transact-SQL)
author	WilliamDAssafMSFT
ms.author	wiassaf
ms.date	03/14/2017
ms.service	sql
ms.subservice	t-sql
ms.topic	reference
f1_keywords	DROP_FULLTEXT_CATALOG_TSQL DROP FULLTEXT CATALOG
helpviewer_keywords	dropping full-text catalogs removing full-text catalogs full-text catalogs [SQL Server], removing deleting full-text catalogs DROP FULLTEXT CATALOG statement
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DROP FULLTEXT CATALOG (Transact-SQL)

[!INCLUDE SQL Server SQL Database]

Removes a full-text catalog from a database. You must drop all full-text indexes associated with the catalog before you drop the catalog.

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Syntax

DROP FULLTEXT CATALOG catalog_name  

Arguments

catalog_name
Is the name of the catalog to be removed. If catalog_name does not exist, [!INCLUDEmsCoName] [!INCLUDEssNoVersion] returns an error and does not perform the DROP operation. The filegroup of the full-text catalog must not be marked OFFLINE or READONLY for the command to succeed.

Permissions

User must have DROP permission on the full-text catalog or be a member of the db_owner, or db_ddladmin fixed database roles.

See Also

sys.fulltext_catalogs (Transact-SQL)
ALTER FULLTEXT CATALOG (Transact-SQL)
CREATE FULLTEXT CATALOG (Transact-SQL)
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