Finding Table Constraints

• stnickyispunk

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  June 17, 2008 at 8:18 am

  #96318

  Does anyone know how to find out the contraints which link tables in mssql using php? And then to remove them?

  I am making a database website for someone and i had to delete the constriants using SQL Server Studio and i am worried about them returning and them being unable to use the database becuase the functions that error when a constraint is met cannot find and delete these constraints automatically.

• Jeff Moden

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  June 24, 2008 at 6:37 pm

  #833655

  Constraints are meant to protect the data.... little things like Primary Keys and Foreign keys as well as some data level constraints in columns keep people from entering garbage into a database. You need to program you PHP to respect those constraints. If the constraints were incorrectly added to the database, then deleting them as you did should be enough. If someone adds a constraint, you need to repect that constraint in your PHP.

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