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phpMyAdmin: How to check if field has index?

It might be very obvious but I don't know how to check if a field has an index with phpMyAdmin.

It's probably so obvious that nobody ever asked it so I could not find something in Google either.

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yoshi Avatar asked Jul 24 '14 14:07

yoshi


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1 Answers

Try this:

SHOW INDEX FROM yourtable;
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Sashi Kant Avatar answered Sep 19 '22 19:09

Sashi Kant