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Asked: 2026-05-13T10:29:32+00:00

I have a row in a table. This row has an ID column referenced

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I have a row in a table. This row has an ID column referenced in a few other tables with millions of rows. The SQL statement to delete the row always times out. From my design, I know the row I wish to delete is never referenced any where else. Hence I would like SQL to ignore having to check all other tables for a foreign key reference to this row and delete the row immediately. Is there a quick way to do this in SQL 2008?
Perhaps something along the lines of:

DELETE FROM myTable where myTable.ID = 6850 IGNORE CONSTRAINTS

Or something along those lines.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can set the constraints on that table / column to not check temporarily, then re-enable the constraints. General form would be:

    ALTER TABLE TableName NOCHECK CONSTRAINT ConstraintName

    Then re-enable all constraints with

    ALTER TABLE TableName CHECK CONSTRAINT ConstraintName

    I assume that this would be temporary though? You obviously wouldn’t want to do this consistently.

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