Dynamically name indexes in SQL Server 2005?

Question

As most people who work with Sql Server know, you can declare a temporary table like so:

create table #foo 
    (
    row_id int identity not null primary ke         


        

Answer 1

This is a non issue. Index names only have to be unique within a table scope, not globally across table scopes. Only constraint names have to be unique within an entire database schema.

So, for example, you can run this in multiple concurrent connections with no problems

CREATE TABLE #T
(
C INT
)

CREATE UNIQUE CLUSTERED INDEX ix on #T(C)

But this would fail under concurrency

ALTER TABLE #T
ADD CONSTRAINT UQ UNIQUE NONCLUSTERED (C)