How to check if a non-clustered index exists in SQL Server 2005

Question

I have the following:

CREATE NONCLUSTERED INDEX [MyTableIndex] ON [dbo].[tablename] ([tablename_ID],[tablename_Field1]) INCLUDE ([Tablename_Field2],[Tablename_Field3]) 

I want to create an if statement to check if this exists. How to do it?

Answer 1

 IF NOT EXISTS(SELECT * FROM sys.indexes WHERE name = 'MyTableIndex' AND object_id = OBJECT_ID('tablename')) BEGIN -- Index with this name, on this table does NOT exist END 

Answer 2

Try the following:

 IF NOT EXISTS(SELECT * FROM sys.indexes WHERE Name = 'MyTableIndex') -- put your CREATE INDEX statement here