How to access the text definition of sql indexes

Question

I am able to access the text definition of stored procedures, views, triggers and functions from sys.sql_modules. I want to get the text definition of indexes.
Can somebody help me in getting the text definition of indexes in sql server.
Thanks,
Puneet

Answer 1

No, Actually I am trying to compare the indexes of two database programmatically.
I am able to compare the stored procedures, views, triggers and functions by getting text definition directly from 'sys.sql_modules',  on similar lines do we have any way from where I could get the text definition of indexes
Not sure if there is any table which stores Index defination but there is a table "sys.indexex" which stores index details.
You may use below query to get index information (It will list out index details but not defination)
SELECT s.NAME 'Schema'
,t.NAME 'Table'
,i.NAME 'Index'
,c.NAME 'Column'
FROM sys.tables t
INNER JOIN sys.schemas s ON t.schema_id = s.schema_id
INNER JOIN sys.indexes i ON i.object_id = t.object_id
INNER JOIN sys.index_columns ic ON ic.object_id = t.object_id
INNER JOIN sys.columns c ON c.object_id = t.object_id
AND ic.column_id = c.column_id
WHERE i.index_id > 0
AND i.type IN (
1
,2
) -- clustered & nonclustered only
AND i.is_primary_key = 0 -- do not include PK indexes
AND i.is_unique_constraint = 0 -- do not include UQ
AND i.is_disabled = 0
AND i.is_hypothetical = 0
AND ic.key_ordinal > 0
ORDER BY ic.key_ordinal
- Also there is one more SP which you can create and then execute it by specifying DB names. It will list out table columns, indexes, constraints difference in one go.
EXEC SP_Comparedb db1,db2
Technet Gallary: Compare two databases for objects differences
Cheers,
Vaibhav Chaudhari