diff --git a/doc/source/reference/io.rst b/doc/source/reference/io.rst
index 0037d4a4410c3..9502d319075ce 100644
--- a/doc/source/reference/io.rst
+++ b/doc/source/reference/io.rst
@@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ SQL
    read_sql_table
    read_sql_query
    read_sql
+   io.sql.get_schema
 
 Google BigQuery
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.2.0.rst b/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.2.0.rst
index 3c436b55c19c2..0558f296a2a08 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.2.0.rst
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.2.0.rst
@@ -730,6 +730,7 @@ I/O
 - :meth:`read_fwf` was inferring compression with ``compression=None`` which was not consistent with the other :meth:``read_*`` functions (:issue:`37909`)
 - :meth:`DataFrame.to_html` was ignoring ``formatters`` argument for ``ExtensionDtype`` columns (:issue:`36525`)
 - Bumped minimum xarray version to 0.12.3 to avoid reference to the removed ``Panel`` class (:issue:`27101`)
+- :meth:`~pandas.io.sql.get_schema` now accepts ``index`` parameter to include index of the DataFrame in the schema (:issue:`9084`)
 
 Period
 ^^^^^^
diff --git a/pandas/io/sql.py b/pandas/io/sql.py
index 5678133d5a706..c766c04224cec 100644
--- a/pandas/io/sql.py
+++ b/pandas/io/sql.py
@@ -1462,12 +1462,13 @@ def _create_sql_schema(
         keys: Optional[List[str]] = None,
         dtype: Optional[dict] = None,
         schema: Optional[str] = None,
+        index: Optional[bool] = False,
     ):
         table = SQLTable(
             table_name,
             self,
             frame=frame,
-            index=False,
+            index=index,
             keys=keys,
             dtype=dtype,
             schema=schema,
@@ -1862,12 +1863,20 @@ def drop_table(self, name, schema=None):
         drop_sql = f"DROP TABLE {_get_valid_sqlite_name(name)}"
         self.execute(drop_sql)
 
-    def _create_sql_schema(self, frame, table_name, keys=None, dtype=None, schema=None):
+    def _create_sql_schema(
+        self,
+        frame,
+        table_name,
+        keys=None,
+        dtype=None,
+        schema=None,
+        index=False,
+    ):
         table = SQLiteTable(
             table_name,
             self,
             frame=frame,
-            index=False,
+            index=index,
             keys=keys,
             dtype=dtype,
             schema=schema,
@@ -1875,7 +1884,7 @@ def _create_sql_schema(self, frame, table_name, keys=None, dtype=None, schema=No
         return str(table.sql_schema())
 
 
-def get_schema(frame, name, keys=None, con=None, dtype=None, schema=None):
+def get_schema(frame, name, keys=None, con=None, dtype=None, schema=None, index=False):
     """
     Get the SQL db table schema for the given frame.
 
@@ -1886,19 +1895,28 @@ def get_schema(frame, name, keys=None, con=None, dtype=None, schema=None):
         name of SQL table
     keys : string or sequence, default: None
         columns to use a primary key
-    con: an open SQL database connection object or a SQLAlchemy connectable
+    con : an open SQL database connection object or a SQLAlchemy connectable
         Using SQLAlchemy makes it possible to use any DB supported by that
         library, default: None
         If a DBAPI2 object, only sqlite3 is supported.
     dtype : dict of column name to SQL type, default None
         Optional specifying the datatype for columns. The SQL type should
         be a SQLAlchemy type, or a string for sqlite3 fallback connection.
-    schema: str, default: None
+    schema : str, default: None
         Optional specifying the schema to be used in creating the table.
 
         .. versionadded:: 1.2.0
+    index : boolean, default: False
+        Whether to include the index of the DataFrame in the sql schema.
+
+        .. versionadded:: 1.2.0
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    string
+        The SQL schema for the given frame.
     """
     pandas_sql = pandasSQL_builder(con=con)
     return pandas_sql._create_sql_schema(
-        frame, name, keys=keys, dtype=dtype, schema=schema
+        frame, name, keys=keys, dtype=dtype, schema=schema, index=index
     )
diff --git a/pandas/tests/io/test_sql.py b/pandas/tests/io/test_sql.py
index 0195b61d13798..86b1f7a2bea3c 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/io/test_sql.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/io/test_sql.py
@@ -894,6 +894,20 @@ def test_get_schema_keys(self):
         constraint_sentence = 'CONSTRAINT test_pk PRIMARY KEY ("A", "B")'
         assert constraint_sentence in create_sql
 
+    def test_get_schema_with_index(self):
+        # GH 9084
+        df = DataFrame({"one": [1, 2, 3], "two": [1, 2, 3]}, index=list("abc"))
+
+        schema_without_index = sql.get_schema(df, "test", con=self.conn)
+        assert "index TEXT" not in schema_without_index
+
+        schema_with_index = sql.get_schema(df, "test", index=True, con=self.conn)
+        assert '"index" TEXT' in schema_with_index
+
+        df.index.name = "new_index"
+        schema_with_index_rename = sql.get_schema(df, "test", index=True, con=self.conn)
+        assert df.index.name in schema_with_index_rename
+
     def test_chunksize_read(self):
         df = DataFrame(np.random.randn(22, 5), columns=list("abcde"))
         df.to_sql("test_chunksize", self.conn, index=False)