In oracle, I can issue a DROP TABLE ... cascade constraints and it won't complain about FKs, etc.
Is there an equivalent in T-SQL?
For those who got here in the hope of a more generally applicable answer
This will find the constraint, drop it, and then the column
Thanks and a vote to Tim Lentine How to find the name of a default constraint for the start.
Declare @sql VarChar(255)
Declare @tableName Varchar(255)
Declare @columnName VarChar(255)
Select @tableName = 'MyTableName'
Select @columnName = 'MyColumnName'
select @sql = o.[name] from sysobjects o
inner join syscolumns c
on o.id = c.cdefault
inner join sysobjects t
on c.id = t.id
where o.xtype = 'd'
and t.name = @tableName
and c.name = @columnName
if @sql is not null
begin
select @sql = 'Alter Table ' + @tableName + ' Drop Constraint ' + @sql + ' Alter Table ' + @tablename + ' Drop Column ' + @columnName
exec(@sql)
end
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