Index creation issues via a sql agent job step.

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Index creation issues via a sql agent job step.

dvprao

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March 20, 2018 at 1:51 pm

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Hello :
Trying to understand what i am doing wrong here.
I execute a SQL script to drop an index if it exists and then create it in the same script.
I execute in SSMs and I see the index.
I use the same script in SQL Agent job as a step and i get success result but do not see the index.
What am i doing wrong here?
IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.indexes WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].
') AND name = N'index_INDEX')
DROP INDEX [index_INDEX] ON [dbo].[tablename]
GO
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
SET ANSI_PADDING ON
GO
IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.indexes WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[tablename') AND name = N'index_INDEX')
CREATE NONCLUSTERED INDEX [index_INDEX] ON [dbo].[tablename]
(
[TAIL_NUMBER] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, SORT_IN_TEMPDB = OFF, DROP_EXISTING = OFF, ONLINE = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
GO
SET ANSI_PADDING ON
GO

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Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182915 More actions · Answer 1

dvprao - Tuesday, March 20, 2018 1:51 PM
Hello :
Trying to understand what i am doing wrong here.
I execute a SQL script to drop an index if it exists and then create it in the same script.
I execute in SSMs and I see the index.
I use the same script in SQL Agent job as a step and i get success result but do not see the index.
What am i doing wrong here?
IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.indexes WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].
') AND name = N'index_INDEX')
DROP INDEX [index_INDEX] ON [dbo].[tablename]
GO
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
SET ANSI_PADDING ON
GO
IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.indexes WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[tablename') AND name = N'index_INDEX')
CREATE NONCLUSTERED INDEX [index_INDEX] ON [dbo].[tablename]
(
[TAIL_NUMBER] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, SORT_IN_TEMPDB = OFF, DROP_EXISTING = OFF, ONLINE = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
GO
SET ANSI_PADDING ON
GO

GO is an SSMS specific (configurable) batch delimiter, not recognized in the SQL Agent
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dvprao Ten Centuries Points: 1311 More actions · Answer 2

Thanks for the tip.
I removed all GO lines in the script and for each batch I appended a semi-colon ; to the line.
It seems to have worked.