Index Properties

The following describes new or changed properties in the property editor and related information.

• SQL Azure does not support the following arguments and options with the CREATE INDEX statement:
  • ON Keyword for:
    • partition_schema_name
    • filegroup name
    • default
  • FILESTREAM_ON
  • relational_index_option
    • PAD_INDEX
    • FILLFACTOR
    • SORT_IN_TEMPDB
    • ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS
    • ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS
    • MAXDOP
    • DATA_COMRESSION
  • Backward-compatible relational index

The following describes the impacts on the SQL Azure Table Index Editor as compared to the SQL Server Table Index Editor:

• On the Options tab, the Filegroups and Filestream Options sections are unavailable. In the Index Options section, the Fill Factor, Pad Index, Sort In Temp DB, Allow Row Locks, Allow Page Locks, and Maximum Degree of Parallelism properties are unavailable.
• The DataCompression and Partitions tabs were removed.

The impacts to reverse-engineer from script include:

• For create|alter index clause, WITH <relational_index_option> = on is not allowed, use WITH <relational_index_option>.