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Can You Drop an Index Associated with a Unique or Primary Key Constraint?

You can not delete the index associated with a unique or primary key constraint. If you try, you will get an error like this: ORA-02429: cannot drop index used for enforcement of unique/primary key.

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1. What Is an Index?
2. How To Run SQL Statements through the Web Interface?
3. How To Create a Table Index?
4. How To List All Indexes in Your Schema?
5. What Is an Index Associated with a Constraint?
6. How To Rename an Index?
7. How To Drop an Index?
8. Can You Drop an Index Associated with a Unique or Primary Key Constraint?
9. What Happens to Indexes If You Drop a Table?
10. How To Recover a Dropped Index?
11. What Happens to the Indexes If a Table Is Recovered?
12. How To Rebuild an Index?
13. How To See the Table Columns Used in an Index?
14. How To Create a Single Index for Multiple Columns?