Can not change index INCLUDE fields order....

Hi...
I was in the process of synchronzing the indexes in two seperate databases;
production and development. I ran into a problem with one table.
The current production index looks like this:
CREATE NONCLUSTERED INDEX [INX_Table1] ON
[dbo].[Table1] ([Field1], [Field2]) INCLUDE ([Field3], [Field4], [Field5],
[Field6], [Field7])
The current development database index looks like this
CREATE NONCLUSTERED INDEX [INX_Table1] ON
[dbo].[Table1] ([Field1], [Field2]) INCLUDE ([Field4], [Field3], [Field5],
[Field6], [Field7])
I need the make changes on the production database so it uses the same
structure as the development database, so I delete the index on the
production database (successful).
I then execute the development index command on the production server.
What is hard to believe is I get the same structure as was there BEFORE. No
matter what I do, (including change the index name), the field
order in the "INCLUDE" portion never changes.
Has anyone seen this before? I realize that the order of the fields in the
"include" area isn't important, but the synchronization software reports
differences (which is a real PITA).
Thanks,
Forch
Hi
"Forch" wrote:

> Hi...
> I was in the process of synchronzing the indexes in two seperate databases;
> production and development. I ran into a problem with one table.
> The current production index looks like this:
> CREATE NONCLUSTERED INDEX [INX_Table1] ON
> [dbo].[Table1] ([Field1], [Field2]) INCLUDE ([Field3], [Field4], [Field5],
> [Field6], [Field7])
> The current development database index looks like this
> CREATE NONCLUSTERED INDEX [INX_Table1] ON
> [dbo].[Table1] ([Field1], [Field2]) INCLUDE ([Field4], [Field3], [Field5],
> [Field6], [Field7])
> I need the make changes on the production database so it uses the same
> structure as the development database, so I delete the index on the
> production database (successful).
> I then execute the development index command on the production server.
> What is hard to believe is I get the same structure as was there BEFORE. No
> matter what I do, (including change the index name), the field
> order in the "INCLUDE" portion never changes.
> Has anyone seen this before? I realize that the order of the fields in the
> "include" area isn't important, but the synchronization software reports
> differences (which is a real PITA).
> Thanks,
> Forch
>
I thought this may be that on the develop machine the column [Field3] had
been dropped and re-created at some point, although my tests on a SP2 machine
have not replicated this!
John