SDU Tools: List Indexes in a SQL Server Database
When I’m working with a SQL Server database, I often need a simple list of all the indexes that are already in place. I want it in a concise form. In our free SDU Tools for developers and DBAs, we added a procedure ListIndexes to do just that, and to provide their details in a form that’s easy to consume programmatically if you need that.
You can see how to execute it in the main image above. The procedure takes these parameters:
@DatabaseName sysname - This is the database to process @SchemasToList nvarchar(max) - a comma-delimited list of schemas to include (ie: ‘Sales,Purchasing’) or the word ‘ALL’ @TablesToList nvarchar(max)- a comma-delimited list of tables to include (ie: ‘Customers,Orders’) or the word ‘ALL’
One row is returned for each index.
The columns returned are SchemaName, TableName, IndexName, KeyColumnList, and IncludedColumnList as shown below:
You can see it in action here:
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2018-11-07