Question

I added a bunch of foreign keys to the database project when previously there weren’t any. In the generated sql file (sql/debug/$projectname.sql) I see a part that starts with

PRINT N'Checking existing data against newly created constraints';
GO
USE [$(DatabaseName)];


GO
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[table1] WITH CHECK CHECK CONSTRAINT [FK_1];

ALTER TABLE [dbo].[table1] WITH CHECK CHECK CONSTRAINT [FK_2];

and on it goes.

How can I stop the database project from generating this section that checks the data against the new constraints? I tried creating the foreign keys using

ALTER TABLE dbo.table1 WITH NOCHECK
ADD CONSTRAINT [FK_1]
FOREIGN KEY (blah)
REFERENCES Table2 (blah2)

but no dice. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Aha, there’s an advanced option called checkNewConstraints in the Database.sqldeployment properties page under the properties folder. That should do the trick.