Drop and Add Foreign Keys

By steve block, 2005/07/13

Have you tried using DTS to load a database and those pesky foreign keys mess you up? This is actually two scripts, one to generate the SQL needed to drop all the Foreign Keys in a database and another to Add the Foreign Keys back when you are done. I've thrown in Disabling and Enabling Triggers as a bonus.

Run the scripts in Query Analyzer with 'Results to text'. Once either script runs, save the results in a .sql file.

Assumption: all objects are owned by dbo

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