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You can use the following SQL when you want to check the indexes in the Teradata database system:

SELECT databasename, tablename, columnname, indextype, indexnumber, indexname FROM dbc.indicesORDER BYindextype

The following are the types of indexes available:

IndexType Description
P Non-partitioned primary
Q Partitioned primary
S Secondary
J Join
N Hash
K Primary key
U Unique constraint
V Value ordered secondary
H Hash ordered ALL covering secondary
O Valued ordered ALL covering secondary
I Ordering column of a composite secondary index
M Multi-column statistics
D Derived column partitioned statistics
1 field1 column of a join or hash index
2 field2 column of a join or hash index

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