In SQL Server 2008, I want to move ALL non-clustered indexes in a DB to a secondary filegroup. What's the easiest way to do this?
Run this updated script to create a stored procedure called MoveIndexToFileGroup
. This procedure moves all the non-clustered indexes on a table to a specified file group. It even supports the INCLUDE
columns that some other scripts do not. In addition, it will not rebuild or move an index that is already on the desired file group. Once you've created the procedure, call it like this:
EXEC MoveIndexToFileGroup @DBName = '<your database name>',
@SchemaName = '<schema name that defaults to dbo>',
@ObjectNameList = '<a table or list of tables>',
@IndexName = '<an index or NULL for all of them>',
@FileGroupName = '<the target file group>';
To create a script that will run this for each table in your database, switch your query output to text, and run this:
SELECT 'EXEC MoveIndexToFileGroup '''
+TABLE_CATALOG+''','''
+TABLE_SCHEMA+''','''
+TABLE_NAME+''',NULL,''the target file group'';'
+char(13)+char(10)
+'GO'+char(13)+char(10)
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES
WHERE TABLE_TYPE = 'BASE TABLE'
ORDER BY TABLE_SCHEMA, TABLE_NAME;
Please refer to the original blog for more details. I did not write this procedure, but updated it according to the blog's responses and confirmed it works on both SQL Server 2005 and 2008.
IGNORE_DUP_KEY
option on. No fix for this yet.