I want to generate a script of all the indexes in a database(Create Index).
I don't want the index script along with create table script. how can we generate it in SQL Server (2005 or 2008). There needs to be separate script for Clustered and Non Clustered Indexes.
This is an excellent article on SQL Server Central that I've used.
Here is another that you might like better.
If it's not exactly what you're looking for (sorting, filtering) I'm sure it would be easier to edit these than to start from scratch.
Here's the slightly corrected (2019) code from the first example:
-- Get all existing indexes, but NOT the primary keys
DECLARE cIX CURSOR FOR
SELECT OBJECT_NAME(SI.Object_ID), SI.Object_ID, SI.Name, SI.Index_ID
FROM Sys.Indexes SI
LEFT JOIN INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS TC ON SI.Name = TC.CONSTRAINT_NAME AND OBJECT_NAME(SI.Object_ID) = TC.TABLE_NAME
WHERE TC.CONSTRAINT_NAME IS NULL
AND OBJECTPROPERTY(SI.Object_ID, 'IsUserTable') = 1
ORDER BY OBJECT_NAME(SI.Object_ID), SI.Index_ID
DECLARE @IxTable SYSNAME
DECLARE @IxTableID INT
DECLARE @IxName SYSNAME
DECLARE @IxID INT
-- Loop through all indexes
OPEN cIX
FETCH NEXT FROM cIX INTO @IxTable, @IxTableID, @IxName, @IxID
WHILE (@@FETCH_STATUS = 0)
BEGIN
DECLARE @IXSQL NVARCHAR(4000) SET @IXSQL = ''
SET @IXSQL = 'CREATE '
-- Check if the index is unique
IF (INDEXPROPERTY(@IxTableID, @IxName, 'IsUnique') = 1)
SET @IXSQL = @IXSQL + 'UNIQUE '
-- Check if the index is clustered
IF (INDEXPROPERTY(@IxTableID, @IxName, 'IsClustered') = 1)
SET @IXSQL = @IXSQL + 'CLUSTERED '
SET @IXSQL = @IXSQL + 'INDEX ' + @IxName + ' ON ' + @IxTable + '('
-- Get all columns of the index
DECLARE cIxColumn CURSOR FOR
SELECT SC.Name
FROM Sys.Index_Columns IC
JOIN Sys.Columns SC ON IC.Object_ID = SC.Object_ID AND IC.Column_ID = SC.Column_ID
WHERE IC.Object_ID = @IxTableID AND Index_ID = @IxID
ORDER BY IC.Index_Column_ID
DECLARE @IxColumn SYSNAME
DECLARE @IxFirstColumn BIT SET @IxFirstColumn = 1
-- Loop throug all columns of the index and append them to the CREATE statement
OPEN cIxColumn
FETCH NEXT FROM cIxColumn INTO @IxColumn
WHILE (@@FETCH_STATUS = 0)
BEGIN
IF (@IxFirstColumn = 1)
SET @IxFirstColumn = 0
ELSE
SET @IXSQL = @IXSQL + ', '
SET @IXSQL = @IXSQL + @IxColumn
FETCH NEXT FROM cIxColumn INTO @IxColumn
END
CLOSE cIxColumn
DEALLOCATE cIxColumn
SET @IXSQL = @IXSQL + ')'
-- Print out the CREATE statement for the index
IF @IXSQL != '' BEGIN PRINT @IXSQL END
FETCH NEXT FROM cIX INTO @IxTable, @IxTableID, @IxName, @IxID
END
CLOSE cIX
DEALLOCATE cIX