How To Drop an Existing Index

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How To Drop an Existing Index? - MySQL FAQs - Understanding SQL CREATE, ALTER and DROP Statements

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If you don't need an existing index any more, you should delete it with the "DROP INDEX indexName ON tableName" statement. Here is an example SQL script:

mysql> DROP INDEX tip_subject ON tip;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.13 sec)
Records: 0  Duplicates: 0  Warnings: 0

mysql> SHOW INDEX FROM TIP;
+------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+...
| Non_unique | Key_name    | Seq_in_index | Column_name |...
+------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+...
|          0 | PRIMARY     |            1 | id          |...
+------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+...
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

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