When loading data, nothing can be more frustrating than having to deal with stubborn constraints and triggers. This is especially true when you know your data is fine but the constraints are too prohibitive for a mass initial load. Here's a technique I use to disable the constraints and triggers temporarily during a mass load.
To do this, we can use the sp_msforeachtable system stored procedure to loop through each table and issue an ALTER TABLE statement to dsable the constraint and trigger. The ALL clause at the end of the command will disable all constraints and triggers. There is no need to drop referential integrity to load data. If you turn on NOCHECK, constraints will not be checked. Here's the code to perform this.
