Disable all non-clustered indexes

Question

I select a number of non-clustered indexes from my database with the following:

SELECT  sys.objects.name tableName,
        sys.indexes.name indexName
FROM           


        

Answer 1

You can build the queries into a select statement, like so:

DECLARE @sql AS VARCHAR(MAX)='';

SELECT @sql = @sql + 
'ALTER INDEX ' + sys.indexes.name + ' ON  ' + sys.objects.name + ' DISABLE;' +CHAR(13)+CHAR(10)
FROM 
    sys.indexes
JOIN 
    sys.objects 
    ON sys.indexes.object_id = sys.objects.object_id
WHERE sys.indexes.type_desc = 'NONCLUSTERED'
  AND sys.objects.type_desc = 'USER_TABLE';

EXEC(@sql);

Chars 13 and 10 are the line-feed/carriage-returns, so you can check the output by replacing EXEC with PRINT, and it will be more readable.