Generate create script for all indexes

I don't seem to have a script like this in my toolbox, but found some others in my search.

Have you already seen this script?

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/Indexing/31652/

It uses a cursor, which is probably not strictly necessary. But I typically can clean them up to avoid a cursor by using the FOR XML and potentially a quirky update to concatenate the strings.

Also found these:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic796512-391-1.aspx

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic401784-562-2.aspx

This worked perfectly for me, from Technet:

SELECT ' CREATE ' + 
    CASE WHEN I.is_unique = 1 THEN ' UNIQUE ' ELSE '' END  +  
    I.type_desc COLLATE DATABASE_DEFAULT +' INDEX ' +   
    I.name  + ' ON '  +  
    Schema_name(T.Schema_id)+'.'+T.name + ' ( ' + 
    KeyColumns + ' )  ' + 
    ISNULL(' INCLUDE ('+IncludedColumns+' ) ','') + 
    ISNULL(' WHERE  '+I.Filter_definition,'') + ' WITH ( ' + 
    CASE WHEN I.is_padded = 1 THEN ' PAD_INDEX = ON ' ELSE ' PAD_INDEX = OFF ' END + ','  + 
    'FILLFACTOR = '+CONVERT(CHAR(5),CASE WHEN I.Fill_factor = 0 THEN 100 ELSE I.Fill_factor END) + ','  + 
    -- default value 
    'SORT_IN_TEMPDB = OFF '  + ','  + 
    CASE WHEN I.ignore_dup_key = 1 THEN ' IGNORE_DUP_KEY = ON ' ELSE ' IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF ' END + ','  + 
    CASE WHEN ST.no_recompute = 0 THEN ' STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF ' ELSE ' STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = ON ' END + ','  + 
    -- default value  
    ' DROP_EXISTING = ON '  + ','  + 
    -- default value  
    ' ONLINE = OFF '  + ','  + 
   CASE WHEN I.allow_row_locks = 1 THEN ' ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON ' ELSE ' ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = OFF ' END + ','  + 
   CASE WHEN I.allow_page_locks = 1 THEN ' ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON ' ELSE ' ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = OFF ' END  + ' ) ON [' + 
   DS.name + ' ] '  [CreateIndexScript] 
FROM sys.indexes I   
 JOIN sys.tables T ON T.Object_id = I.Object_id    
 JOIN sys.sysindexes SI ON I.Object_id = SI.id AND I.index_id = SI.indid   
 JOIN (SELECT * FROM (  
    SELECT IC2.object_id , IC2.index_id ,  
        STUFF((SELECT ' , ' + C.name + CASE WHEN MAX(CONVERT(INT,IC1.is_descending_key)) = 1 THEN ' DESC ' ELSE ' ASC ' END 
    FROM sys.index_columns IC1  
    JOIN Sys.columns C   
       ON C.object_id = IC1.object_id   
       AND C.column_id = IC1.column_id   
       AND IC1.is_included_column = 0  
    WHERE IC1.object_id = IC2.object_id   
       AND IC1.index_id = IC2.index_id   
    GROUP BY IC1.object_id,C.name,index_id  
    ORDER BY MAX(IC1.key_ordinal)  
       FOR XML PATH('')), 1, 2, '') KeyColumns   
    FROM sys.index_columns IC2   
    --WHERE IC2.Object_id = object_id('Person.Address') --Comment for all tables  
    GROUP BY IC2.object_id ,IC2.index_id) tmp3 )tmp4   
  ON I.object_id = tmp4.object_id AND I.Index_id = tmp4.index_id  
 JOIN sys.stats ST ON ST.object_id = I.object_id AND ST.stats_id = I.index_id   
 JOIN sys.data_spaces DS ON I.data_space_id=DS.data_space_id   
 JOIN sys.filegroups FG ON I.data_space_id=FG.data_space_id   
 LEFT JOIN (SELECT * FROM (   
    SELECT IC2.object_id , IC2.index_id ,   
        STUFF((SELECT ' , ' + C.name  
    FROM sys.index_columns IC1   
    JOIN Sys.columns C    
       ON C.object_id = IC1.object_id    
       AND C.column_id = IC1.column_id    
       AND IC1.is_included_column = 1   
    WHERE IC1.object_id = IC2.object_id    
       AND IC1.index_id = IC2.index_id    
    GROUP BY IC1.object_id,C.name,index_id   
       FOR XML PATH('')), 1, 2, '') IncludedColumns    
   FROM sys.index_columns IC2    
   --WHERE IC2.Object_id = object_id('Person.Address') --Comment for all tables   
   GROUP BY IC2.object_id ,IC2.index_id) tmp1   
   WHERE IncludedColumns IS NOT NULL ) tmp2    
ON tmp2.object_id = I.object_id AND tmp2.index_id = I.index_id   
WHERE I.is_primary_key = 0 AND I.is_unique_constraint = 0 
--AND I.Object_id = object_id('Person.Address') --Comment for all tables 
--AND I.name = 'IX_Address_PostalCode' --comment for all indexes 

I found this answer on mssqltips and this is the link to the article I found there.

I am also posting the TSQL for possible link-rot in future.

T-SQL Script to Drop All SQL Server Indexes

DECLARE @SchemaName VARCHAR(256)DECLARE @TableName VARCHAR(256)
DECLARE @IndexName VARCHAR(256)
DECLARE @TSQLDropIndex VARCHAR(MAX)

DECLARE CursorIndexes CURSOR FOR
 SELECT schema_name(t.schema_id), t.name,  i.name 
 FROM sys.indexes i
 INNER JOIN sys.tables t ON t.object_id= i.object_id
 WHERE i.type>0 and t.is_ms_shipped=0 and t.name<>'sysdiagrams'
 and (is_primary_key=0 and is_unique_constraint=0)

OPEN CursorIndexes
FETCH NEXT FROM CursorIndexes INTO @SchemaName,@TableName,@IndexName

WHILE @@fetch_status = 0
BEGIN
 SET @TSQLDropIndex = 'DROP INDEX '+QUOTENAME(@SchemaName)+ '.' + QUOTENAME(@TableName) + '.' +QUOTENAME(@IndexName)
 PRINT @TSQLDropIndex
 FETCH NEXT FROM CursorIndexes INTO @SchemaName,@TableName,@IndexName
END

CLOSE CursorIndexes
DEDEALLOCATE CursorIndexes

T-SQL Script to Create All SQL Server Indexes

declare @SchemaName varchar(100)declare @TableName varchar(256)
declare @IndexName varchar(256)
declare @ColumnName varchar(100)
declare @is_unique varchar(100)
declare @IndexTypeDesc varchar(100)
declare @FileGroupName varchar(100)
declare @is_disabled varchar(100)
declare @IndexOptions varchar(max)
declare @IndexColumnId int
declare @IsDescendingKey int 
declare @IsIncludedColumn int
declare @TSQLScripCreationIndex varchar(max)
declare @TSQLScripDisableIndex varchar(max)

declare CursorIndex cursor for
 select schema_name(t.schema_id) [schema_name], t.name, ix.name,
 case when ix.is_unique = 1 then 'UNIQUE ' else '' END 
 , ix.type_desc,
 case when ix.is_padded=1 then 'PAD_INDEX = ON, ' else 'PAD_INDEX = OFF, ' end
 + case when ix.allow_page_locks=1 then 'ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON, ' else 'ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = OFF, ' end
 + case when ix.allow_row_locks=1 then  'ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ' else 'ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = OFF, ' end
 + case when INDEXPROPERTY(t.object_id, ix.name, 'IsStatistics') = 1 then 'STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = ON, ' else 'STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, ' end
 + case when ix.ignore_dup_key=1 then 'IGNORE_DUP_KEY = ON, ' else 'IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ' end
 + 'SORT_IN_TEMPDB = OFF, FILLFACTOR =' + CAST(ix.fill_factor AS VARCHAR(3)) AS IndexOptions
 , ix.is_disabled , FILEGROUP_NAME(ix.data_space_id) FileGroupName
 from sys.tables t 
 inner join sys.indexes ix on t.object_id=ix.object_id
 where ix.type>0 and ix.is_primary_key=0 and ix.is_unique_constraint=0 --and schema_name(tb.schema_id)= @SchemaName and tb.name=@TableName
 and t.is_ms_shipped=0 and t.name<>'sysdiagrams'
 order by schema_name(t.schema_id), t.name, ix.name

open CursorIndex
fetch next from CursorIndex into  @SchemaName, @TableName, @IndexName, @is_unique, @IndexTypeDesc, @IndexOptions,@is_disabled, @FileGroupName

while (@@fetch_status=0)
begin
 declare @IndexColumns varchar(max)
 declare @IncludedColumns varchar(max)

 set @IndexColumns=''
 set @IncludedColumns=''

 declare CursorIndexColumn cursor for 
  select col.name, ixc.is_descending_key, ixc.is_included_column
  from sys.tables tb 
  inner join sys.indexes ix on tb.object_id=ix.object_id
  inner join sys.index_columns ixc on ix.object_id=ixc.object_id and ix.index_id= ixc.index_id
  inner join sys.columns col on ixc.object_id =col.object_id  and ixc.column_id=col.column_id
  where ix.type>0 and (ix.is_primary_key=0 or ix.is_unique_constraint=0)
  and schema_name(tb.schema_id)=@SchemaName and tb.name=@TableName and ix.name=@IndexName
  order by ixc.index_column_id

 open CursorIndexColumn 
 fetch next from CursorIndexColumn into  @ColumnName, @IsDescendingKey, @IsIncludedColumn

 while (@@fetch_status=0)
 begin
  if @IsIncludedColumn=0 
   set @IndexColumns=@IndexColumns + @ColumnName  + case when @IsDescendingKey=1  then ' DESC, ' else  ' ASC, ' end
  else 
   set @IncludedColumns=@IncludedColumns  + @ColumnName  +', ' 

  fetch next from CursorIndexColumn into @ColumnName, @IsDescendingKey, @IsIncludedColumn
 end

 close CursorIndexColumn
 deallocate CursorIndexColumn

 set @IndexColumns = substring(@IndexColumns, 1, len(@IndexColumns)-1)
 set @IncludedColumns = case when len(@IncludedColumns) >0 then substring(@IncludedColumns, 1, len(@IncludedColumns)-1) else '' end
 --  print @IndexColumns
 --  print @IncludedColumns

 set @TSQLScripCreationIndex =''
 set @TSQLScripDisableIndex =''
 set @TSQLScripCreationIndex='CREATE '+ @is_unique  +@IndexTypeDesc + ' INDEX ' +QUOTENAME(@IndexName)+' ON ' + QUOTENAME(@SchemaName) +'.'+ QUOTENAME(@TableName)+ '('+@IndexColumns+') '+ 
  case when len(@IncludedColumns)>0 then CHAR(13) +'INCLUDE (' + @IncludedColumns+ ')' else '' end + CHAR(13)+'WITH (' + @IndexOptions+ ') ON ' + QUOTENAME(@FileGroupName) + ';'  

 if @is_disabled=1 
  set  @TSQLScripDisableIndex=  CHAR(13) +'ALTER INDEX ' +QUOTENAME(@IndexName) + ' ON ' + QUOTENAME(@SchemaName) +'.'+ QUOTENAME(@TableName) + ' DISABLE;' + CHAR(13) 

 print @TSQLScripCreationIndex
 print @TSQLScripDisableIndex

 fetch next from CursorIndex into  @SchemaName, @TableName, @IndexName, @is_unique, @IndexTypeDesc, @IndexOptions,@is_disabled, @FileGroupName

end
close CursorIndex
deallocate CursorIndex

Hope this helps someone.