Replication PreScreen for proper Primary Keys

THIS TABLE WILL HODL YOUR TABLENAME AND UP TO THREE KEY COLUMNS FOR CREATING YOUR PRIMARY KEYS
THE OTHER COLUMNS ARE USED IN PROCESSING THE KEY'S AND GENERATING THE ALTER TABLE ASTATEMENTS TO
CREATE THE PRIMARY KEYS FOR YOUR DB. THIS TOOL IS HANDY FOR PREPPING FOR A REPLICATION STRATEGY
TO HELP YOU QUICKLY INDENTIFY IF YOU HAVE ANY STRAGGLING TABLES OUT THERE AND TO QUICKLY GENERATE
THE ALTER STATEMENTS TO BRING THEM IN LINE WITH THE REST OF YOUR MODEL. ALL THAT IS NEEDED IS TO
INSERT THE TABLENAMES AND YOUR CHOICES FOR KEY COLUMNS INTO THE TABLE PRIMARYKEYFIX.
THE CODE BELOW INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING:

1. TABLE CREATION SCRIPT
2. SCRIPT TO FIND ALL TABLE OBJECTS IN YOUR DB THAT ARE MISSING PRIMARY KEYS
3. AN EXECUTE STATEMENT (FROM ANOTHER AUTHOR'S PROCEDURE THAT I WAS ABLE TO USE) hIS WORK IS POSTED ON SQLSERVERCENTRAL.COM
AND THERE IS A CITATION AND LINK IN MY CODE THANKING HIM FOR HIS WORK
4. THE SCRIPT TO GENERATE ALL YOUR ALTER STATEMENTS. YOU MAY RECIEVE SOME WARNINGS BASED ON THE SIZE OF YOUR
DATA AND SOME KEY SIZES. wE ARE WORKING THOSE OUT OF OUR MODEL. i LEFT THEM ALONE BECAUES I WANTED YOU TO BE ABLE TO SEE IF YOU RAN INTO ANY PROBLEMS.

REPLICATION CAN BE TOUGH ENOUGH WITHOUGH DEALING WITH PK AND MODEL ISSUES. I HOPE THIS SCRIPT CAN HELP EAS YOUR MIGRATION.

THIS SCRIPT WAS DEVELOPED ENTIRELY IN SQL SERVER 2005, BUT HAS BEEN TESTED AND PROVEN TO WORK ON BOTH PLATFORMS. ENJOY !!!

Adam Jorgensen
adamjorgensen@hotmail.com
8/1/2005