On table “A” depend about 30 other tables via FK to “A.Id”.
For integration testing I have to drop the table and recreate it to create a defined state. Because of the dependent objects their seem to be no way to delete and recreate the table. The error message is:
Could not drop object ‘dbo.A’
because it is referenced by a FOREIGN
KEY constraint
Question(s):
- How can I drop and recreate table “A”?
- (or) is there any way turn the schema dependencies off globally?
- (or) is there any way to backup (all!) dependencies before deleting and restoring table “A” and restore all dependencies afterward?
Go to the database in SSMS and right click. Choose tasks, generate scripts. Then go through the options and set them the way you want (Probaly to only choose foreign keys inthe table and create dependant objects and drop and recreate, dont;hve the options in front of me but you will see them. THen choose the tables you want to script the FKs for and script them to a file. Open the file and separate the drop statements into one file and the create statments into another. Now you have tweo files you can run do autmatically do what you want when ever you run run a test. I would suggest recreating the files before running the first test (in case they have changed since the last time tests were run) but not for each individual test.