List Tables That Contain Special Indexes

Find out if any of your tables contain special columnstore or spatial indexes. Columnstore indexes organizes the data in columns instead of rows like traditional indexes and can increase performance on large data sets as found in data warehouses. Spatial indexes are a special type of index on a spatial column such as geometry or geography.

— Tables with columnstore indexes — SQL 2012 +

select t.name as TablesWithColumnstoreInx

from sys.indexes i

inner join sys.tables t

on i.object_id = t.object_id

where i.type = 5 or i.type = 6

— Tables with spatial indexes — SQL 2014 +

select t.name as TablesWithSpatialInx

from sys.indexes i

inner join sys.tables t

on i.object_id = t.object_id

where i.type = 4

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/indexes/columnstore-indexes-overview

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/spatial/spatial-indexes-overview

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