Drop all extended properties on SQL Server

Question

How to drop all extended properties on SQL Server in a scriptable way?

Answer 1

Please see the Below URL to drop the extended property:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178595.aspx

Answer 2

I tried running the scripts and nothing seemed to work for me. I did however find that I could delete the extended properties by going to my tables/views in Object Explorer and doing to following:

• Right click on Table/View in Object Explorer, select Properties
• Select Extended Properties from the pane on the left
• Select the extended properties and click Delete at the bottom right of the window

Answer 3

use this script

EXEC sys.sp_dropextendedproperty 
     @name  =N'MS_Description', 
     @level0type = N'SCHEMA', 
     @level0name = N'dbo',
     @level1type = N'TABLE',
     @level1name = N'ActivityEventRecipient';
GO 

Source:drop extended property

Answer 4

If you want a script that will drop all extended properties in one go then use a script that Jamie Thomson has created that will generate drops for all extended properties. You can download it from this article.

I've pasted his script here (in full with acknowledgements in-case the article is removed):

/*
This script will generate calls to sp_dropextendedproperty for every
extended property that exists in your database.
Actually, a caveat: I don't promise that it will catch each and every 
extended property that exists, but I'm confident it will catch most of them!

It is based on this: 
http://blog.hongens.nl/2010/02/25/drop-all-extended-properties-in-a-mssql-database/ 
by Angelo Hongens.

Also had lots of help from this:
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Metadata/72609/
by Adam Aspin

Adam actually provides a script at that link to do something very similar
but when I ran it I got an error:
Msg 468, Level 16, State 9, Line 78
Cannot resolve the collation conflict between "Latin1_General_100_CS_AS" and "Latin1_General_CI_AS" in the equal to operation.

So I put together this version instead. 

Use at your own risk.

Jamie Thomson
2012-03-25
*/


/*Are there any extended properties? Let's take a look*/
select  *,OBJECT_NAME(major_id) from    sys.extended_properties xp

/*Now let's generate sp_dropextendedproperty statements for all of them.*/
--tables
set nocount on;
select 'EXEC sp_dropextendedproperty
@name = '''+xp.name+'''
,@level0type = ''schema''
,@level0name = ''' + object_schema_name(xp.major_id) + '''
,@level1type = ''table''
,@level1name = ''' + object_name(xp.major_id) + ''''
from sys.extended_properties xp
join sys.tables t on xp.major_id = t.object_id
where xp.class_desc = 'OBJECT_OR_COLUMN'
and xp.minor_id = 0
union
--columns
select 'EXEC sp_dropextendedproperty
@name = '''+sys.extended_properties.name+'''
,@level0type = ''schema''
,@level0name = ''' + object_schema_name(extended_properties.major_id) + '''
,@level1type = ''table''
,@level1name = ''' + object_name(extended_properties.major_id) + '''
,@level2type = ''column''
,@level2name = ''' + columns.name + ''''
from sys.extended_properties
join sys.columns
on columns.object_id = extended_properties.major_id
and columns.column_id = extended_properties.minor_id
where extended_properties.class_desc = 'OBJECT_OR_COLUMN'
and extended_properties.minor_id > 0
union
--check constraints
select  'EXEC sp_dropextendedproperty
@name = '''+xp.name+'''
,@level0type = ''schema''
,@level0name = ''' + object_schema_name(xp.major_id) + '''
,@level1type = ''table''
,@level1name = ''' + object_name(cc.parent_object_id) + '''
,@level2type = ''constraint''
,@level2name = ''' + cc.name + ''''
from    sys.extended_properties xp
join sys.check_constraints cc       on  xp.major_id = cc.object_id
union
--check constraints
select  'EXEC sp_dropextendedproperty
@name = '''+xp.name+'''
,@level0type = ''schema''
,@level0name = ''' + object_schema_name(xp.major_id) + '''
,@level1type = ''table''
,@level1name = ''' + object_name(cc.parent_object_id) + '''
,@level2type = ''constraint''
,@level2name = ''' + cc.name + ''''
from    sys.extended_properties xp
join sys.default_constraints cc     on  xp.major_id = cc.object_id
union
--views
select 'EXEC sp_dropextendedproperty
@name = '''+xp.name+'''
,@level0type = ''schema''
,@level0name = ''' + object_schema_name(xp.major_id) + '''
,@level1type = ''view''
,@level1name = ''' + object_name(xp.major_id) + ''''
from sys.extended_properties xp
join sys.views t on xp.major_id = t.object_id
where xp.class_desc = 'OBJECT_OR_COLUMN'
and xp.minor_id = 0
union
--sprocs
select 'EXEC sp_dropextendedproperty
@name = '''+xp.name+'''
,@level0type = ''schema''
,@level0name = ''' + object_schema_name(xp.major_id) + '''
,@level1type = ''procedure''
,@level1name = ''' + object_name(xp.major_id) + ''''
from sys.extended_properties xp
join sys.procedures t on xp.major_id = t.object_id
where xp.class_desc = 'OBJECT_OR_COLUMN'
and xp.minor_id = 0
union
--FKs
select  'EXEC sp_dropextendedproperty
@name = '''+xp.name+'''
,@level0type = ''schema''
,@level0name = ''' + object_schema_name(xp.major_id) + '''
,@level1type = ''table''
,@level1name = ''' + object_name(cc.parent_object_id) + '''
,@level2type = ''constraint''
,@level2name = ''' + cc.name + ''''
from    sys.extended_properties xp
join sys.foreign_keys cc        on  xp.major_id = cc.object_id
union
--PKs
SELECT 
'EXEC sys.sp_dropextendedproperty @level0type = N''SCHEMA'', @level0name = [' + SCH.name + '], @level1type = ''TABLE'', @level1name = [' + TBL.name + '] , @level2type = ''CONSTRAINT'', @level2name = [' + SKC.name + '] ,@name = ''' + REPLACE(CAST(SEP.name AS NVARCHAR(300)),'''','''''') + ''''
FROM sys.tables TBL
 INNER JOIN sys.schemas SCH
 ON TBL.schema_id = SCH.schema_id 
 INNER JOIN sys.extended_properties SEP
 INNER JOIN sys.key_constraints SKC
 ON SEP.major_id = SKC.object_id 
 ON TBL.object_id = SKC.parent_object_id 
WHERE SKC.type_desc = N'PRIMARY_KEY_CONSTRAINT'
union
--Table triggers
SELECT 
'EXEC sys.sp_dropextendedproperty @level0type = N''SCHEMA'', @level0name = [' + SCH.name + '], @level1type = ''TABLE'', @level1name = [' + TBL.name + '] , @level2type = ''TRIGGER'', @level2name = [' + TRG.name + '] ,@name = ''' + REPLACE(CAST(SEP.name AS NVARCHAR(300)),'''','''''') + ''''
FROM sys.tables TBL
 INNER JOIN sys.triggers TRG
 ON TBL.object_id = TRG.parent_id 
 INNER JOIN sys.extended_properties SEP
 ON TRG.object_id = SEP.major_id 
 INNER JOIN sys.schemas SCH
 ON TBL.schema_id = SCH.schema_id
union
--UDF params
SELECT 
'EXEC sys.sp_dropextendedproperty @level0type = N''SCHEMA'', @level0name = [' + SCH.name + '], @level1type = ''FUNCTION'', @level1name = [' + OBJ.name + '] , @level2type = ''PARAMETER'', @level2name = [' + PRM.name + '] ,@name = ''' + REPLACE(CAST(SEP.name AS NVARCHAR(300)),'''','''''') + ''''
FROM sys.extended_properties SEP
 INNER JOIN sys.objects OBJ
 ON SEP.major_id = OBJ.object_id 
 INNER JOIN sys.schemas SCH
 ON OBJ.schema_id = SCH.schema_id 
 INNER JOIN sys.parameters PRM
 ON SEP.major_id = PRM.object_id 
 AND SEP.minor_id = PRM.parameter_id 
WHERE SEP.class_desc = N'PARAMETER'
 AND OBJ.type IN ('FN', 'IF', 'TF') 
union
--sp params
SELECT 
'EXEC sys.sp_dropextendedproperty @level0type = N''SCHEMA'', @level0name = [' + SCH.name + '], @level1type = ''PROCEDURE'', @level1name = [' + SPR.name + '] , @level2type = ''PARAMETER'', @level2name = [' + PRM.name + '] ,@name = ''' + REPLACE(CAST(SEP.name AS NVARCHAR(300)),'''','''''') + ''''
FROM sys.extended_properties SEP
 INNER JOIN sys.procedures SPR
 ON SEP.major_id = SPR.object_id 
 INNER JOIN sys.schemas SCH
 ON SPR.schema_id = SCH.schema_id 
 INNER JOIN sys.parameters PRM
 ON SEP.major_id = PRM.object_id 
 AND SEP.minor_id = PRM.parameter_id 
WHERE SEP.class_desc = N'PARAMETER'
union
--DB
SELECT 
'EXEC sys.sp_dropextendedproperty @name = ''' + REPLACE(CAST(SEP.name AS NVARCHAR(300)),'''','''''') + ''''
FROM sys.extended_properties SEP
WHERE class_desc = N'DATABASE'
union
--schema
SELECT 
'EXEC sys.sp_dropextendedproperty @level0type = N''SCHEMA'', @level0name = [' + SCH.name + '] ,@name = ''' + REPLACE(CAST(SEP.name AS NVARCHAR(300)),'''','''''') + ''''
FROM sys.extended_properties SEP
 INNER JOIN sys.schemas SCH
 ON SEP.major_id = SCH.schema_id 
WHERE SEP.class_desc = N'SCHEMA'
union
--DATABASE_FILE
SELECT 
'EXEC sys.sp_dropextendedproperty @level0type = N''FILEGROUP'', @level0name = [' + DSP.name + '], @level1type = ''LOGICAL FILE NAME'', @level1name = ' + DBF.name + ' ,@name = ''' + REPLACE(CAST(SEP.name AS NVARCHAR(300)),'''','''''') + ''''
FROM sys.extended_properties SEP
 INNER JOIN sys.database_files DBF
 ON SEP.major_id = DBF.file_id 
 INNER JOIN sys.data_spaces DSP
 ON DBF.data_space_id = DSP.data_space_id 
WHERE SEP.class_desc = N'DATABASE_FILE'
union
--filegroup
SELECT 
'EXEC sys.sp_dropextendedproperty @level0type = N''FILEGROUP'', @level0name = [' + DSP.name + '] ,@name = ''' + REPLACE(CAST(SEP.name AS NVARCHAR(300)),'''','''''') + ''''
FROM sys.extended_properties SEP
 INNER JOIN sys.data_spaces DSP
 ON SEP.major_id = DSP.data_space_id
WHERE DSP.type_desc = 'ROWS_FILEGROUP'
union
-- INDEX
select 'EXEC sp_dropextendedproperty
@name = '''+sys.extended_properties.name+'''
,@level0type = ''schema''
,@level0name = ''' + object_schema_name(extended_properties.major_id) + '''
,@level1type = ''table''
,@level1name = ''' + object_name(extended_properties.major_id) + '''
,@level2type = ''index''
,@level2name = ''' + indexes.name + ''''
from sys.extended_properties
join sys.indexes
on indexes.object_id = extended_properties.major_id
and indexes.index_id = extended_properties.minor_id
where extended_properties.class_desc = 'INDEX'
and extended_properties.minor_id > 0