Question

Can anybody know how to remove all the indexes from database ?

Answer 1

Using this query will create you a list of DROP statements which you can then execute:

SELECT 
    'DROP INDEX ' + ix.name + ' ON ' + OBJECT_NAME(ID)
FROM 
    sysindexes ix
WHERE   
    ix.Name IS NOT null

That should be pretty fast and take care of dropping all indices 🙂

Marc

PS: ah, sorry, I just noticed this will only work in SQL Server 2005 and up. For SQL Server 2000, you’ll need to use the “sysindexes” view instead… I updated my statement accordingly