Programmatically deleting Indexes

How do you programmatically delete ALL indexes for all tables in SQL Server?
Is this possible? I was thinking about using SQL DMO to do this.
adv-thanks-anceYou can iterate through the Indexes collection of a table and then use the
Remove method to drop the index.
Tom
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> How do you programmatically delete ALL indexes for all tables in SQL
> Server?
> Is this possible? I was thinking about using SQL DMO to do this.
> adv-thanks-ance|||ALL of the indexes for the ENTIRE SQL Server (including all databases) ?
Might want to test that out prior to implementing it on a production
machine.
Check out the Remove method of the Indexes collection in SQL-DMO.
T-SQL - could try something like this for one db (not fully tested):
SELECT 'DROP INDEX [' + OBJECT_NAME(ID) + '.' + NAME + ']'
FROM SYSINDEXES
WHERE NAME NOT LIKE 'SYS%' AND NAME NOT LIKE 'DT%' AND NAME NOT LIKE '_WA%'
AND OBJECT_NAME(ID) NOT LIKE 'SYS%'
AND OBJECT_NAME(ID) NOT LIKE 'MS%' AND OBJECT_NAME(ID) NOT LIKE 'DT%'
AND INDID >= 1 AND INDID < 255
ORDER BY OBJECT_NAME(ID), NAME
Then copy/paste/run the resultset in a query window in QA. Since an index
associated with a constraint cannot be dropped outside of dropping the
constraint, you might have to remove some of the entries listed and drop the
constraint manually. But this might help get you started.
HTH
Jerry
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code@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> How do you programmatically delete ALL indexes for all tables in SQL
> Server?
> Is this possible? I was thinking about using SQL DMO to do this.
> adv-thanks-ance|||The thing about dropping and re-creating indexes is that it involves
interrupting access to the database tables. Perhaps what you are wanting to
do is periodically defragment indexes. DBCC INDEXDEFRAG does not interrupt
queries and is typically faster than REINDEX.
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Index Defragmentation Best Practices
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pr...n/ss2kidbp.mspx
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code@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> How do you programmatically delete ALL indexes for all tables in SQL
> Server?
> Is this possible? I was thinking about using SQL DMO to do this.
> adv-thanks-ance|||Take a look at this example:
http://milambda.blogspot.com/2005/0...in-current.html
...and tailor it to suit your needs.
ML|||If you use this be sure you increase or have ample room in the transaction
log for that database.
"ML" <ML@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Take a look at this example:
> [url]http://milambda.blogspot.com/2005/07/defragment-all-indexes-in-current.html[/url
]
> ...and tailor it to suit your needs.
>
> ML|||Unlike REINDEX, which rebuilds the entire index in one large transaction,
INDEXDEFRAG only re-aranges the physical position of specific index pages as
needed, and each unit of work is in a seperate transaction, so it would
typically use less transaction logging.
[url]http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2000/maintain/ss2kidbp.mspx#EFAA[
/url]
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> If you use this be sure you increase or have ample room in the transaction
> log for that database.
> "ML" <ML@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>