We recently started using full-text search on our site, which uses ML 8.1. Many of our items use multiple variants, which all have their own SKU. On those products, I leave the SKU field blank on the "edit product" page in admin, and use the full SKU for "SKU suffix" in the individual variants.
However, I can't get the full-text search to return anything when we search for those SKUs. I have edited the catalog in our SQL manager, so those fields are supposed to be included in the catalog. Any suggestions for how I can get our search to return these variants by SKU?