Question

Not having luck when dropping a constraint…I am logged in as ‘sa’ which should have enough permissions to execute it but I still get:

Msg 4902, Level 16, State 1, Line 6
Cannot find the object "dbo.Products" because it does not exist or you do not have permissions.

And here is the query:

USE [PRSS10_DATABASE]
    IF EXISTS (SELECT * 
      FROM sys.foreign_keys 
       WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID(N'dbo.FK_Product_SMC')
       AND parent_object_id = OBJECT_ID(N'dbo.Products')
    )
      ALTER TABLE [dbo.Products] DROP CONSTRAINT [FK_Product_SMC]

Now I am able to access the table.. the table exists and the Foreign key as well.. what could I be missing?

Answer 1

It’s the brackets. when you do [dbo.products] that makes it think the whole object is named “dbo.products” What you want is [dbo].[Products] so that it recognizes “dbo” as the schema and “Products” as the table name.