How do I remove offline Files from a SQL Server 2005 database
问题 I have a database that was restored from a SQL 2000 instance to a SQL 2005 instance some time ago. The SQL 2000 instance had old, unused Full Text Searches defined. It appears that, when the file was restored, the full text searches were not restored but just deleted. This left the database in a funny state, with the FTS files still associated with the database but the files the database knows about listed as OFFLINE. Which, it turns out, keeps the database from having a full backup done. So,