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MySQL Tutorial - Show All Indexes of a given Table

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How To Get a List of Indexes of a Given Table?

If you want to see the index you have just created for an existing table, you can use the "SHOW INDEX FROM tableName" command to get a list of all indexes in a given table. The tutorial script below shows you a nice example:

mysql> SHOW INDEX FROM TIP;
+------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+...
| Non_unique | Key_name    | Seq_in_index | Column_name |...
+------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+...
|          0 | PRIMARY     |            1 | id          |...
|          1 | tip_subject |            1 | subject     |...
+------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+...
2 rows in set (0.03 sec)

It's interesting to see that there is a default index for the primary key column.

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1. What Are DDL Statements?
2. How To Create a New Table?
3. What Happens If You No CREATE Privilege in a Database?
4. How To Get a List of All Tables in a Database?
5. How To Get a List of Columns in an Existing Table?
6. How To See the CREATE TABLE Statement of an Existing Table?
7. How To Create a New Table by Selecting Rows from Another Table?
8. How To Add a New Column to an Existing Table?
9. How To Delete an Existing Column in a Table?
10. How To Rename an Existing Column in a Table?
11. How To Rename an Existing Table?
12. How To Drop an Existing Table?
13. How To Create an Index for a Given Table?
14. How To Get a List of Indexes of a Given Table?
15. How To Drop an Existing Index?
16. How To Create a New View?
17. How To Drop an Existing View?