DROP INDEX (Selective XML Indexes)

**APPLIES TO:** SQL Server (starting with 2012) Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Data Warehouse Parallel Data Warehouse

Drops an existing selective XML index or secondary selective XML index in SQL Server For more information, see Selective XML Indexes (SXI).

Transact-SQL Syntax Conventions

Syntax

DROP INDEX index_name ON <object>  
    [ WITH ( <drop_index_option> [ ,...n ] ) ]  
  
<object> ::=  
{  
    [ database_name. [ schema_name ] . | schema_name. ]   
        table_or_view_name  
}  
  
<drop_index_option> ::=  
{  
    MAXDOP = max_degree_of_parallelism  
    | ONLINE = { ON | OFF }  
}  

Arguments

index_name
Is the name of the existing index to drop.

< object> Is the table that contains the indexed XML column. Use one of the following formats:

• database_name.schema_name.table_name

• database_name..table_name

• schema_name.table_name

• table_name

<drop_index_option> For information about the drop index options, see DROP INDEX (Transact-SQL).

Security

Permissions

ALTER permission on the table or view is required to run DROP INDEX. This permission is granted by default to the sysadmin fixed server role and the db_ddladmin and db_owner fixed database roles.

Example

The following example shows a DROP INDEX statement.

DROP INDEX sxi_index ON tbl;  

See Also

Selective XML Indexes (SXI)
Create, Alter, and Drop Selective XML Indexes