Question

is there a script that can be used to enable cascaded deletion for existing tables.
Thanks.

Answer 1

ALTER TABLE [wm].[TABLE_NAME]  WITH NOCHECK ADD  CONSTRAINT [FK_TABLE_NAME_PARENT_TABLE_NAME] FOREIGN KEY([FOREIGN_KEY])
REFERENCES [wm].[PARENT_TABLE_NAME] ([PRIVATE_KEY])
ON DELETE CASCADE
GO

• TABLE_NAME: name of the table where the children are stored.
• PARENT_TABLE_NAME: name of the table where the parents are stored.
  This placeholders can be equal
• FK_TABLE_NAME_PARENT_TABLE_NAME: just name for the constraint
• FOREIGN_KEY: field in the child table for the connection with the parents, for example - ParentID
• PRIMARY_KEY: field in the parents table, for example - ID

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ALTER TABLE [wm].[Thumbs]  WITH NOCHECK ADD  CONSTRAINT [FK_Thumbs_Documents] FOREIGN KEY([DocID])
REFERENCES [wm].[Documents] ([ID])
ON DELETE CASCADE
GO