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Newbie question on creating index
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Microsoft SQL Server
Category:
Database design
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SQL Server:
SQL Server 2005
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Thread ID:
01243713
Message ID:
01243864
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>>1. I want to create a couple of index keys for a table. At this point I want to learn how to do it using SQL Server Management Studio, visually. I opened SQLSMS, go to my database, to the table. Then I clicked on Table Designer menu and on the Indexes/Keys item. The Indexes/Keys window is empty. And I thought I would see at least on index key there, for the Primary key (as I read in the BOL that SQL Server automatically creates a clustered index for a Primary key in a table). If not in this window, where do you see the clustered index keys (that are automatically created by SQL Server)?
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>All fields involved in PK are marked with key icon in the grid. Did you see such things?
>To see ALL indexes you could script the table, Right Click on Table name in TreeView and select Script Table as CREATE To.
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It shows you I don't know much about SQl Server indexes (and other things too) <g>.

First, about Primary key. I am not sure I have one. When I created a table I set property of one of the columns as Identity Specification to Yes. I thought this automatically makes the column as Primary. Am I mistaken? If so, how do you do it?

When I script the table to a Query (as you suggested) the CREATE TABLE expression shows columns of the table, shows one column as IDENTITY and no indexes. Where would I see the "key icon in the grid"? I see no grid anywhere. Sorry for being so newbie on this.

Thank you for your help.
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