How can foreign key constraints be temporarily disabled using T
Are disabling and enabling foreign key constraints supported in SQL Server? Or is my only option to drop and then re- create the constraints?
If you want to disable all constraints in the database just run this code:
-- disable all constraints
EXEC sp_MSforeachtable "ALTER TABLE ? NOCHECK CONSTRAINT all"
To switch them back on, run: (the print is optional of course and it is just listing the tables)
-- enable all constraints
exec sp_MSforeachtable @command1="print '?'", @command2="ALTER TABLE ? WITH CHECK CHECK CONSTRAINT all"
I find it useful when populating data from one database to another. It is much better approach than dropping constraints. As you mentioned it comes handy when dropping all the data in the database and repopulating it (say in test environment).
If you are deleting all the data you may find this solution to be helpful.
Also sometimes it is handy to disable all triggers as well, you can see the complete solution here.
http://www.sqljunkies.com/WebLog/roman/archive/2005/01/30/7037.aspx
-- Disable all table constraints
ALTER TABLE MyTable NOCHECK CONSTRAINT ALL
-- Enable all table constraints
ALTER TABLE MyTable WITH CHECK CHECK CONSTRAINT ALL
-- Disable single constraint
ALTER TABLE MyTable NOCHECK CONSTRAINT MyConstraint
-- Enable single constraint
ALTER TABLE MyTable WITH CHECK CHECK CONSTRAINT MyConstraint
Your best option is to DROP and CREATE foreign key constraints.
I didn't find examples in this post that would work for me "as-is", one would not work if foreign keys reference different schemas, the other would not work if foreign key references multiple columns. This script considers both, multiple schemas and multiple columns per foreign key.
Here is the script that generates "ADD CONSTRAINT" statements, for multiple columns it will separate them by comma ( be sure to save this output before executing DROP statements ):
PRINT N'-- CREATE FOREIGN KEY CONSTRAINTS --';
SET NOCOUNT ON;
SELECT '
PRINT N''Creating '+ const.const_name +'...''
GO
ALTER TABLE ' + const.parent_obj + '
ADD CONSTRAINT ' + const.const_name + ' FOREIGN KEY (
' + const.parent_col_csv + '
) REFERENCES ' + const.ref_obj + '(' + const.ref_col_csv + ')
GO'
FROM (
SELECT QUOTENAME(fk.NAME) AS [const_name]
,QUOTENAME(schParent.NAME) + '.' + QUOTENAME(OBJECT_name(fkc.parent_object_id)) AS [parent_obj]
,STUFF((
SELECT ',' + QUOTENAME(COL_NAME(fcP.parent_object_id, fcp.parent_column_id))
FROM sys.foreign_key_columns AS fcP
WHERE fcp.constraint_object_id = fk.object_id
FOR XML path('')
), 1, 1, '') AS [parent_col_csv]
,QUOTENAME(schRef.NAME) + '.' + QUOTENAME(OBJECT_NAME(fkc.referenced_object_id)) AS [ref_obj]
,STUFF((
SELECT ',' + QUOTENAME(COL_NAME(fcR.referenced_object_id, fcR.referenced_column_id))
FROM sys.foreign_key_columns AS fcR
WHERE fcR.constraint_object_id = fk.object_id
FOR XML path('')
), 1, 1, '') AS [ref_col_csv]
FROM sys.foreign_key_columns AS fkc
INNER JOIN sys.foreign_keys AS fk ON fk.object_id = fkc.constraint_object_id
INNER JOIN sys.objects AS oParent ON oParent.object_id = fkc.parent_object_id
INNER JOIN sys.schemas AS schParent ON schParent.schema_id = oParent.schema_id
INNER JOIN sys.objects AS oRef ON oRef.object_id = fkc.referenced_object_id
INNER JOIN sys.schemas AS schRef ON schRef.schema_id = oRef.schema_id
GROUP BY fkc.parent_object_id
,fkc.referenced_object_id
,fk.NAME
,fk.object_id
,schParent.NAME
,schRef.NAME
) AS const
ORDER BY const.const_name
Here is the script that generates "DROP CONSTRAINT" statements:
PRINT N'-- DROP FOREIGN KEY CONSTRAINTS --';
SET NOCOUNT ON;
SELECT '
PRINT N''Dropping ' + fk.NAME + '...''
GO
ALTER TABLE [' + sch.NAME + '].[' + OBJECT_NAME(fk.parent_object_id) + ']' + ' DROP CONSTRAINT ' + '[' + fk.NAME + ']
GO'
FROM sys.foreign_keys AS fk
INNER JOIN sys.schemas AS sch ON sch.schema_id = fk.schema_id
ORDER BY fk.NAME
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