Generate Create Scripts for a List of Indexes

Generate script of All the indexes in a database

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

Generate CREATE scripts for a list of indexes

You're pretty close, I'd say - I tried this, can you verify if this works for you and shows you the expected 122 indices to be recreated??

UPDATE: added functionality to determine CLUSTERED vs. NONCLUSTERED index type, and to add INCLUDEd columns to the index definition.

WITH indexCTE AS
(
    SELECT DISTINCT 
        i.index_id, i.name, i.object_id
    FROM 
        sys.indexes i 
    INNER JOIN
        sys.index_columns ic 
           ON i.index_id = ic.index_id AND i.object_id = ic.object_id
    WHERE 
        EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.columns c 
                 WHERE c.collation_name = 'Modern_Spanish_CI_AS' 
                 AND c.column_id = ic.column_id AND c.object_id = ic.object_id)
), 
indexCTE2 AS
(
    SELECT 
        indexCTE.name 'IndexName', 
        OBJECT_NAME(indexCTE.object_ID) 'TableName',
        CASE indexCTE.index_id 
          WHEN 1 THEN 'CLUSTERED'
          ELSE 'NONCLUSTERED'
        END AS 'IndexType', 
        (SELECT DISTINCT c.name + ','
         FROM 
            sys.columns c 
         INNER JOIN
            sys.index_columns ic 
               ON c.object_id = ic.object_id AND ic.column_id = c.column_id AND ic.Is_Included_Column = 0
         WHERE
            indexCTE.OBJECT_ID = ic.object_id 
            AND indexCTE.index_id = ic.index_id 
         FOR XML PATH('')
        ) ixcols,
        ISNULL(
        (SELECT DISTINCT c.name + ','
         FROM 
            sys.columns c 
         INNER JOIN
            sys.index_columns ic 
               ON c.object_id = ic.object_id AND ic.column_id = c.column_id AND ic.Is_Included_Column = 1
         WHERE
            indexCTE.OBJECT_ID = ic.object_id 
            AND indexCTE.index_id = ic.index_id 
         FOR XML PATH('')
        ), '') includedcols
    FROM 
        indexCTE
) 
SELECT 
    'CREATE ' + IndexType + ' INDEX ' + IndexName + ' ON ' + TableName + 
        '(' + SUBSTRING(ixcols, 1, LEN(ixcols)-1) + 
        CASE LEN(includedcols)
          WHEN 0 THEN ')'
          ELSE ') INCLUDE (' + SUBSTRING(includedcols, 1, LEN(includedcols)-1) + ')'
        END
FROM 
   indexCTE2
ORDER BY 
   TableName, IndexName

Do you get the CREATE INDEX statements you're looking for??

Marc

How create only index script of all tables from database in MS SQL server?

SSMS scripting options are configurable. To include non-constraint indexes in the SSMS generated scripts, change the Script indexes option to true from the tools menu under Tools-->Options-->SQL Server Explorer-->Scripting-->.

In cases where SSMS scripting is insufficient for your needs, you can use SMO (e.g. Scripter via PowerShell or .NET code) or the cross-platform mssql-scripter command-line utility.

Generate CREATE INDEX statements in SQL Server

Use Generate Scripts from SQL Management Studio and choose the "Script Indexes" options (under Advanced Scripting options)

Generate script of all indexes, keys in the SQL Server database

Column names are stored in the sys.columns andsys.index_columns tables.

This will select the column names from all tables:

SELECT  sc.name
FROM    sys.tables st
        INNER JOIN sys.columns sc ON sc.OBJECT_ID = st.OBJECT_ID
WHERE   st.OBJECT_ID = 'ObjectID'

Or to join with the sys.indexes table, this will select the table name and the columns:

SELECT  st.name ,
        sc.name
FROM    sys.indexes si
        INNER JOIN sys.tables st ON si.object_id = st.object_id
        INNER JOIN sys.columns sc ON sc.OBJECT_ID = st.OBJECT_ID

You can add a WHERE clause into the statement to filter on your index column

SELECT  si.name ,
        st.name ,
        sc.name
FROM    sys.indexes si
        INNER JOIN sys.tables st ON si.object_id = st.object_id
        INNER JOIN sys.columns sc ON sc.OBJECT_ID = st.OBJECT_ID
WHERE   si.name = 'IX_EVT_EVENTS'

Is there a built-in tool to generate create table with index script in SQL Server 2012?

along with Table Structure want Indexes

Then

GO TO ->

SQLSERVER --> Tools --> Options
-->
SQL Server Object Explorer-->Scripting/Script Indexes 

OR

GO TO -- > Generate Scripts --> It will give Table Script with Indexes

-- set to "True"

Auto generate script for CREATE TABLE including all indices, constraints, etc (not via SSMS)

Right-click on the database, select Tasks; there is Generate Scripts there. Just follow prompts or Google for additional information.

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