Listing Indexes

  • Hope someone can help.

    I'm querying sysobjects to retrieve all index information so I can generate a big drop script. (I can generate the create script from scripting out the database in Enterprise Manager but the script to drop the indexes from this just drops the tables to get rid of them which I don't want!)

    I can identify all of the constraints from sysindexes and sysobjects:

    select sy1.[name], sy2.[name], sy2.xtype from sysobjects as sy1

    inner join sysobjects as sy2 on sy1.id=sy2.parent_obj

    However, all non key clustered and non clustered indexes are not in sysobjects and only in sysindexes, I can identify all clustered indexes in sysindexes as they all have an indid = 1 and I can match up to my other results to see what I haven't got but I cannot identify all the non key non clustered indexes as the indid is >1 and this brings back everything else in the table.

    How can I identify these non key non clustered indexes using the system tables?

    Thanks

  • i've got this saved in my snippets of code; i added the bolded where statement to ignore clustered indexes:

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    SELECT TOP 100

    REPLICATE(' ',4000) AS COLNAMES ,

    OBJECT_NAME(I.ID) AS TABLENAME,

    I.ID AS TABLEID,

    I.INDID AS INDEXID,

    I.NAME AS INDEXNAME,

    I.STATUS,

    INDEXPROPERTY (I.ID,I.NAME,'ISUNIQUE') AS ISUNIQUE,

    INDEXPROPERTY (I.ID,I.NAME,'ISCLUSTERED') AS ISCLUSTERED,

    INDEXPROPERTY (I.ID,I.NAME,'INDEXFILLFACTOR') AS INDEXFILLFACTOR

    INTO #TMP

    FROM SYSINDEXES I

    WHERE I.INDID > 0

    AND I.INDID < 255

    AND (I.STATUS &amp; 64)=0

    --uncomment below to eliminate PK or UNIQUE indexes;

    --what i call 'normal' indexes

    --AND INDEXPROPERTY (I.ID,I.NAME,'ISUNIQUE') =0

    --AND INDEXPROPERTY (I.ID,I.NAME,'ISCLUSTERED') =0

    DECLARE

    @ISQL VARCHAR(4000),

    @TABLEID INT,

    @INDEXID INT,

    @MAXTABLELENGTH INT,

    @MAXINDEXLENGTH INT

    --USED FOR FORMATTING ONLY

    SELECT @MAXTABLELENGTH=MAX(LEN(TABLENAME)) FROM #TMP

    SELECT @MAXINDEXLENGTH=MAX(LEN(INDEXNAME)) FROM #TMP

    DECLARE C1 CURSOR FOR

    SELECT TABLEID,INDEXID FROM #TMP

    OPEN C1

    FETCH NEXT FROM C1 INTO @TABLEID,@INDEXID

    WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS <> -1

    BEGIN

    SET @ISQL = ''

    SELECT @ISQL=@ISQL + ISNULL(SYSCOLUMNS.NAME,'') + ',' FROM SYSINDEXES I

    INNER JOIN SYSINDEXKEYS ON I.ID=SYSINDEXKEYS.ID AND I.INDID=SYSINDEXKEYS.INDID

    INNER JOIN SYSCOLUMNS ON SYSINDEXKEYS.ID=SYSCOLUMNS.ID AND SYSINDEXKEYS.COLID=SYSCOLUMNS.COLID

    WHERE I.INDID > 0

    AND I.INDID < 255

    AND (I.STATUS &amp; 64)=0

    AND I.ID=@TABLEID AND I.INDID=@INDEXID

    ORDER BY SYSCOLUMNS.COLID

    UPDATE #TMP SET COLNAMES=@ISQL WHERE TABLEID=@TABLEID AND INDEXID=@INDEXID

    FETCH NEXT FROM C1 INTO @TABLEID,@INDEXID

    END

    CLOSE C1

    DEALLOCATE C1

    --AT THIS POINT, THE 'COLNAMES' COLUMN HAS A TRAILING COMMA

    UPDATE #TMP SET COLNAMES=LEFT(COLNAMES,LEN(COLNAMES) -1)

    SELECT 'CREATE '

    + CASE WHEN ISUNIQUE = 1 THEN ' UNIQUE ' ELSE ' ' END

    + CASE WHEN ISCLUSTERED = 1 THEN ' CLUSTERED ' ELSE ' ' END

    + ' INDEX [' + UPPER(INDEXNAME) + ']'

    + SPACE(@MAXINDEXLENGTH - LEN(INDEXNAME))

    +' ON [' + UPPER(TABLENAME) + '] '

    + SPACE(@MAXTABLELENGTH - LEN(TABLENAME))

    + '(' + UPPER(COLNAMES) + ')'

    + CASE WHEN INDEXFILLFACTOR = 0 THEN '' ELSE ' WITH FILLFACTOR = ' + CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),INDEXFILLFACTOR) END --AS SQL

    FROM #TMP

    --------------

    WHERE ISCLUSTERED = 0

    --------------

    --SELECT * FROM #TMP

    DROP TABLE #TMP

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    Lowell


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  • I think something got goofed up in the cut-paste process :

    (I.STATUS & 64)

  • Nice Script

    Cheers !

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