I posted a blog recently about returning a listing of all indexes for database, which is good if you want to see how many are in a database. However, you may want to return the indexes for one particular table. Script 1 shown below will do just that!  Just modify the table that you are looking for (and USE statement like above) and execute the script. See figure 1 for sample results of executing this script against the AdventureWorksDW2008R2 database available on Codeplex.

Script 1: List Indexes for Specific Table

USE AdventureWorksDW2008R2

GO

SELECT

            so.name AS TableName

            , si.name AS IndexName

            , si.type_desc AS IndexType

FROM

            sys.indexes si

            JOIN sys.objects so ON si.[object_id] = so.[object_id]

WHERE

            so.type = 'U'    --Only get indexes for User Created Tables

            AND si.name IS NOT NULL

            AND so.name = 'FactInternetSales'

ORDER BY

            so.name, si.type 

Figure 1: Sample Results – Specified Table

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Brian K. McDonald, MCDBA, MCSD
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