⟩ How To Drop Existing Indexes in MS SQL Server?
For some reason, if you want remove an existing index, you can use the DROP INDEX statement with following syntax:
CREATE INDEX table_name.index_name
The tutorial exercise below shows you how to remove the index "ggl_links_id":
USE GlobalGuideLineDatabase;
GO
SELECT * FROM sys.indexes WHERE object_id = (
SELECT object_id FROM sys.tables WHERE name = 'ggl_links'
);
GO
object_id name index_id type_desc is_unique--------- ------------- -------- ---------- ---------
421576540 NULL 0 HEAP 0
421576540 ggl_links_id 2 NONCLUSTERED 0
421576540 ggl_links_url 3 NONCLUSTERED 0
DROP INDEX ggl_links.ggl_links_id;
GO
SELECT * FROM sys.indexes WHERE object_id = (
SELECT object_id FROM sys.tables WHERE name = 'ggl_links'
);
GO
object_id name index_id type_desc is_unique--------- ------------- -------- ---------- ---------
421576540 NULL 0 HEAP 0
421576540 ggl_links_url 3 NONCLUSTERED 0
