Index.DropAndMove Method (String, StringCollection)

Article
12/03/2008

Drops a clustered index and moves the underlying table data to the partition scheme with the specified with partition scheme parameters.

Namespace: Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo
Assembly: Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo (in microsoft.sqlserver.smo.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Sub DropAndMove ( _
    partitionScheme As String, _
    partitionSchemeParameters As StringCollection _
)

public void DropAndMove (
    string partitionScheme,
    StringCollection partitionSchemeParameters
)

public:
void DropAndMove (
    String^ partitionScheme, 
    StringCollection^ partitionSchemeParameters
)

public void DropAndMove (
    String partitionScheme, 
    StringCollection partitionSchemeParameters
)

public function DropAndMove (
    partitionScheme : String, 
    partitionSchemeParameters : StringCollection
)

Parameters

partitionScheme
A String value that specifies the partition scheme.

partitionSchemeParameters
A StringCollection object that specifies the parameters for the partition scheme

Remarks

The OnlineIndexOperation and MaximumDegreeOfParallelism properties affect this method. The parent Table object needs to be refreshed by calling the Refresh method to reflect the latest state, because this will not be updated by this method automatically.

This namespace, class, or member is supported only in version 2.0 of the Microsoft .NET Framework.

Example

How to: Create a Non-Clustered, Composite Index in Visual Basic .NET

Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Microsoft Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

Platforms

Development Platforms

For a list of the supported platforms, see Hardware and Software Requirements for Installing SQL Server 2005.

Target Platforms