Few days back, during my routine check on the main Production Server came across the following.
Event Type: Warning Event Source: Microsoft SearchEvent Category: Gatherer Event ID: 3035
Date: 4/24/2012
Time: 6:02:37 PM
User: N/A
Computer: XXXXXXXX
Description: One or more warnings or errors for Gatherer project <SQLServer SQL0000800008> were logged to file <Z:\MSSQL\GatherLogs\SQL0000800008.13.gthr>. If you are interested in these messages, please, look at the file using the gatherer log query object (gthrlog.vbs, log viewer web page).
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When I noticed this warning for the first time, it was something to ignore... yes, it was! But, before making decision any warnings or errors on critical servers need to be checked thorougly. so, did I...
I started looking in for more and more details... asking myself!
First of all, Is this really an ERROR to worry or just warning information?
Referring to Event Type these are just informational messages. In our case these are related to the deletes of rows that are not in the SQL table, but are in the FT(Full Text) Catalog during the Incremental Population. There can be instances of these occurring with respect to OS, Sharepoint also.
BTW, how did I come to know that the information was something to do with Full text Population... :O
This is something we HAVE to know!
Ok, I just presented the reason for the message first and then thought of explaining how did I get to know? ;) Continue reading...
Once we know that these are just information; how do we read the errors? Microsoft has provided a utility called Gthrlog.vbs Utility to view Gather Logs.
For more information on the usage of utility one can infer to the below link.
From the utility, I inferred the following: Please note this is only with respect to the error presented above. This clearly shows that there are some objects missing :O but nothing to worry as such :) all is well in the Database.
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1996-2001. All rights reserved.7/7/2009 2:01:48 PM MSSQL75://SQLServer/693a71d5/006CC558 Modify Error fetching URL, (80041201 - The object was not found. )7/7/2009 6:46:40 PM MSSQL75://SQLServer/693a71d5/006046FF Modify Error fetching URL, (80041201 - The object was not found. )7/7/2009 8:12:38 PM MSSQL75://SQLServer/693a71d5/006999C4 Modify Error fetching URL, (80041201 - The object was not found. )
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Finally, What is"Gatherer" ?
Gatherer component is responsible for scheduling and driving full text index population. Its basically a component provided with SQL Server. It retrieves textual and binary data from database tables, streaming the content to filters for indexing. Now, we may need to understand full text indexing.
So, here we go... One of the best sites I have come across to understand the "Full Text Indexing" in SQL Server. Please do read this.
That is all for now... Please leave your comments and suggestions!