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DROP INDEX (Windows Azure SQL Database)
Removes one or more relational, spatial, filtered, or XML indexes from the current database.
Syntax Conventions (Windows Azure SQL Database)
DROP INDEX
{ <drop_relational_or_xml_or_spatial_index> [ ,...n ]
}
<drop_relational_or_xml_or_spatial_index> ::=
index_name ON <object>
<object> ::=
{
[ database_name. [ schema_name ] . | schema_name. ]
table_or_view_name
}
This syntax diagram demonstrates the supported arguments and options in Microsoft Windows Azure SQL Database.
Windows Azure SQL Database does not support the following arguments and options when using the DROP INDEX statement:
-
database_name
-
<drop_backward_compatible_index>
-
<drop_clustered_index_option>
 Note |
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| Windows Azure SQL Database supports the three-part name format database_name.[schema_name].object_name when the database_name is the current database or the database_name is tempdb and the object_name starts with #. Windows Azure SQL Database does not support four-part names. |
For more information about the arguments and the DROP INDEX statement, see DROP INDEX in SQL Server Books Online.
