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Finding a Primary Key Constraint on the fly in SQL Server 2005
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I need to drop the primary key of a table Student
in a SQL Server database.
I have edited in the table and the script I got is
ALTER TABLE dbo.Student
DROP CONSTRAINT PK__Student__9CC368536561EF8B
But when I run this script in SQL Server query browser to drop the primary key
It shows the message
Msg 3728, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
'PK__Student__9CC368536561EF8B' is not a constraint.
Msg 3727, Level 16, State 0, Line 1
To my concern I think PK__Student__9CC368536561EF8B
this will be generated randomly
please help me to drop the primary key constraint using script.
Thanks in advance
You can look up the constraint name in the sys.key_constraints table:
SELECT name
FROM sys.key_constraints
WHERE [type] = 'PK'
AND [parent_object_id] = Object_id('dbo.Student');
If you don't care about the name, but simply want to drop it, you can use a combination of this and dynamic sql:
DECLARE @table NVARCHAR(512), @sql NVARCHAR(MAX);
SELECT @table = N'dbo.Student';
SELECT @sql = 'ALTER TABLE ' + @table
+ ' DROP CONSTRAINT ' + name + ';'
FROM sys.key_constraints
WHERE [type] = 'PK'
AND [parent_object_id] = OBJECT_ID(@table);
EXEC sp_executeSQL @sql;
This code is from Aaron Bertrand (source).
simply click
'Database'>tables>your table name>keys>copy the constraints like 'PK__TableName__30242045'
and run the below query is :
Query:alter Table 'TableName' drop constraint PK__TableName__30242045
The answer I got is that variables and subqueries
will not work and we have to user dynamic SQL script. The following works:
DECLARE @SQL VARCHAR(4000)
SET @SQL = 'ALTER TABLE dbo.Student DROP CONSTRAINT |ConstraintName| '
SET @SQL = REPLACE(@SQL, '|ConstraintName|', ( SELECT name
FROM sysobjects
WHERE xtype = 'PK'
AND parent_obj = OBJECT_ID('Student')))
EXEC (@SQL)