INDEXPROPERTY()

Returns the named property value of a specified table identification number, index or statistics name, and property name.

Signature

INDEXPROPERTY ( object_ID , index_or_statistics_name , property )

Parameters

  • object_ID — An expression that contains the object identification number of the table or indexed view for which to provide index property information. *object_ID* is int.
  • index_or_statistics_name — An expression that contains the name of the index or statistics for which to return property information. *index_or_statistics_name* is nvarchar(128).
  • property — An expression that contains the name of the index or statistics property to return. *property* is varchar(128), and can be one of these values.

Examples

SELECT
    INDEXPROPERTY(OBJECT_ID('HumanResources.Employee'), 'PK_Employee_BusinessEntityID', 'IsClustered') AS [Is Clustered],
    INDEXPROPERTY(OBJECT_ID('HumanResources.Employee'), 'PK_Employee_BusinessEntityID', 'IndexDepth') AS [Index Depth],
    INDEXPROPERTY(OBJECT_ID('HumanResources.Employee'), 'PK_Employee_BusinessEntityID', 'IndexFillFactor') AS [Fill Factor];
NULL|NULL|NULL

Run against SQL Server 16.0.4265.3 on 2026-09-13. This is the output we got, not the documentation’s.

Available on

  • SQL Server 2017 and later
  • Azure SQL Database
  • Azure SQL Managed Instance
  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Analytics Platform System (PDW)
  • Fabric SQL database

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