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sql server programming : Invalid entries in sysindexes

Jon Brabham
6/16/2006 4:07:40 PM

Hi all,

I am running an INDEXDEFRAG on all tables in the database and am receiving
the following error:

DBCC INDEXDEFRAG (msdgen, 279500991, pmshr_iv_inventory_trans_init)
Server: Msg 7999, Level 16, State 8, Line 1
Could not find any index named 'pmshr_iv_inventory_trans_init' for table
'pmshr_iv_inventory_trans_init'.
DBCC execution completed. If DBCC printed error messages, contact your
system administrator.

I looked in the sysindexes table and these entries exist, but from the EM if
you right click the table and choose Manage Indexes they are not present.

I am receiving this on 23 tables/indexes in the the entire DB and am
wondering if there is a way to remove the invalid entries programmatically.

Let me know and thanks for reading,

Jon Brabham

Tracy McKibben
6/16/2006 8:50:55 PM

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Do this at your own risk...

/* Allow direct modification of system tables */
EXEC sp_configure ‘allow’, 1
RECONFIGURE WITH OVERRIDE
GO
USE database_name
GO

/* Backup sysindexes table, just in case */
SELECT * INTO sysindexes_bak FROM sysindexes

DELETE FROM sysindexes WHERE name = ‘index_name‘
GO

/* Dis-allow direct modification of system tables */
EXEC sp_configure ‘allow’, 0
RECONFIGURE WITH OVERRIDE
GO

/* Recreate the dropped index */
CREATE INDEX index_name ON table_name (key definitions…)

Uri Dimant
6/18/2006 12:00:00 AM

Jon
I'd not follow Tracy's advice because it is really risky to deal with
system tables.

Run DBCC CHECKDB first and see whether it retruns errors or not.

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Jon Brabham
6/19/2006 12:00:00 AM

Yeah I agree, good to know though.

I noticed that all of the indexes that happened to be giving me this error
had an sysindexes.indid of 0 so I just filtered them out.

If anyone knows a good way to automatically re-certify all the data in these
tables it would also be good to know.

Thanks for the replies!
Jon

ID of index:
1 = Clustered index
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255 = Entry for tables that have text or image data

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Tracy McKibben
6/19/2006 7:35:35 AM

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Question was "wondering if there is a way to remove the invalid entries
programmatically", I responded with a way to do just that, qualified
with "Do this at your own risk". Wasn't recommended that he do it, I
was answering his question.

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