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Dropping an Index

An index can be dropped rather simply. The most common reason to drop an index is an attempt to improve the performance. Here is the syntax to drop an index.

DROP INDEX index_name;

Indexes should not be used on small tables. Also, indexes should not be used on columns that contain a higher number of NULL values.

DROP INDEX IDX_LAST_NAME;

The above example drops the index IDX_last_name.