How to Script Out Indexes from SQL Server

Sometimes you need to script out all the indexes in a database. Maybe you’re concerned something has changed since they were last checked in. Or maybe the indexes aren’t checked into source control, and you’re working on fixing that. (Important!)

Either way, sometimes you need to do it, and it’s not fun through the GUI. I needed to write some fresh demo code for this recently, and I needed it to give the details for partitioned tables using data compression, and I thought I’d share.

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Index Usage Statistics with ColumnList and Index Size

As an add on to my last post, here is what I currently do use to track index usage. This shows usage, columns in the index, and index size on disk. The size can be quite useful to know when evaluating how much an index is worth– typically if this index is large then you’re paying a fair amount on the inserts.

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Everything About Your Indexes (well, almost)

I am going to post my monstrously big index query.

Why? Because it’s AWESOME. No really, it actually is awesome. At least, if you like that sort of thing. I use some variant of this almost daily, and I tweak it fairly regularly to suit the needs of whatever I’m working on. So it’s a work in progress, but I find it constantly valuable.

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