Create fulltext index within Entity Framework Coded Migrations

Question

TLDR; How do you add a full text index using Entity framework 5 coded migrations

I\'m having issues adding a full text index to a database using Ent

Answer 1

I had a similar problem. My InitialCreate migration was creating a table and then attempting to add a full text index to that table, using the overloaded Sql() to indicate that it needs to execute outside the transaction. I was also getting a timeout error and I suspect it's due to a thread deadlock.

I could get it to work in some scenarios by using Sql() calls instead of CreateTable() and by merging the CREATE FULL TEXT CATALOG and CREATE FULL TEXT INDEX statements into a single Sql() call. However, this wasn't very reliable. Sometimes it would work and sometimes it would fail with the same timeout error.

The only reliable solution I found was to move the creation of the catalog and full text index into a separate migration.