Should I delete Hypothetical Indexes?
Just USE
the database you want to clean and run this:
DECLARE @sql VARCHAR(MAX) = ''
SELECT
@sql = @sql + 'DROP INDEX [' + i.name + '] ON [dbo].[' + t.name + ']' + CHAR(13) + CHAR(10)
FROM
sys.indexes i
INNER JOIN sys.tables t
ON i.object_id = t.object_id
WHERE
i.is_hypothetical = 1
EXECUTE sp_sqlexec @sql
Just delete them, they aren't actually taking up any space or causing any performance hit/benefit at all, but if you're looking at which indexes are defined on a table and forget to exclude hypothetical indexes, it might cause some confusion, also in the unlikely event that you try to create an index with the same name as one of these indexes, it will fail as it already exists.