How to View DB2 Table Indexes and Primary Keys

1 year ago
Jackson Davis
1 minute

To view the indexes and primary key of a table, you can achieve this by either using the DB2 command line tool or by executing an SQL query.

Utilize the DB2 command line tool:

  1. Open the DB2 command line tool.
  2. Connect to the database in DB2.
  3. DB2 shows a list of indexes for the table named in the .
  4. List the primary keys for the table named in the schema in the DB2 database.

Query using SQL:

  1. Open the DB2 command line tool or the DB2 client tool.
  2. Retrieve the name of the index from the SYSCAT.INDEXES table where the schema is equal to ‘‘ and the table name is equal to ‘‘.
  3. Retrieve the column names from the SYSCAT.INDEXES table where the schema name is equal to ‘‘, the table name is equal to ‘‘, and the unique rule is equal to ‘P’.

By following the steps above, you can view the index and primary key information of the specified table.

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