Listing all Indexes - Microsoft SQL Server

Zack Sessions

Still using SQL7.

I am wondering how come there is not an Information_Schema view that
lists indexes? Information_Schema is supposed to be the safest way to
obtain information on metadata, but it appears that the only way to
get a list of indexes is with a system stored proc.

Jul 20 '05 #1

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Erland Sommarskog

Zack Sessions (zc********@visionair.com) writes:

Still using SQL7.

I am wondering how come there is not an Information_Schema view that
lists indexes? Information_Schema is supposed to be the safest way to
obtain information on metadata, but it appears that the only way to
get a list of indexes is with a system stored proc.

I guess this is because INFORMATION_SCHEMA comes from ANSI, and ANSI
does not know what an index is, as index is regarded to be an implementation
issue. And someone leaped to the conclusion that INFORMATION_SCHEMA
could replace system tables.

One of the reasons I prefer the system tables (together with property
functions) is that they represent complete information set.
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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, so****@algonet.se

Books Online for SQL Server SP3 at
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/techinf...2000/books.asp

Jul 20 '05 #2

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