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Asked: 2026-05-16T16:19:32+00:00

I recently copied a MSSQL2000 DB to a MSSQL2008 DB . Afterwards I ran

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I recently copied a MSSQL2000 DB to a MSSQL2008 DB. Afterwards I ran a script to update all the text/varchar fields in the tables to the same collation as the model db. However, all my copied views still are using the same collation as the previous db. The easiest way I found to fix this would be to have MS SQL Management Studio create the DROP/CREATE scripts for these views. However, certain views depend on other views so you need to make sure to DROP/CREATE these views in the proper order.

So my question is:

How would I create a script that traverses, depth first, the dependencies of each view and then on the return trip drops and creates each view?

I’m assuming that this will use SMO. I will be writing the script in C#.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Can you not just iterate through and execute sp_refreshview dynamically? This will achieve the same result: updating the view for the new base table definition.

    You aren’t using WITH SCHEMABINDING (otherwise could not change tables) so dependency or depth does not matter.

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