Find Duplicate Indexes

By Jeff Weisbecker, 2003/12/04

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There are plenty of scripts out there that find duplicate indexes, but they all seem to use cursors. I didn't want to use a cursor so I ended up creating a few that could handle the duplicates and decided to share this one.

This will return the table name and the names of the two identical indexes. If you would like to return indexes with a different number of columns, but the same sequence of columns then comment out the last condition in the SQL statement. For example, if you would like to return Index #1 as a duplicate of Index #2.

Index #1
Column 2
Column 3

Index #2
Column 2
Column 3
Column 4

By Jeff Weisbecker, 2003/12/04

Total article views: 573 | Views in the last 30 days: 101

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