Index is dependent on column

Reports cases when you try to drop columns from indexed tables. This inspection is available in Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase ASE.

Example (Microsoft SQL Server):

CREATE TABLE test_index
(
col  INT NOT NULL,
col2 INT NOT NULL,
col3 INT NOT NULL UNIQUE,
col4 VARCHAR(200)
);

CREATE UNIQUE INDEX aaaa ON test_index (col, col2);

ALTER TABLE test_index
DROP COLUMN col;

You cannot delete the col column because it is in the indexed table. To delete the column, you need to delete the aaaa index first (for example, DROP INDEX aaaa).

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

SqlDropIndexedColumn

Via Settings dialog

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Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | SQL

Inspection ID: SqlDropIndexedColumnInspection

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection SqlDropIndexedColumn

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Inspection Details
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Last modified: 18 September 2025