Question

Using MS-SQL-08:

Is it possible to somehow temporarily disable dependency checking, so that I can create a view that uses a function that does not exist (has not yet been created) at the time of creating the view. [then create the required function, and finally re-enable dependency checking]

So, lets say I have view V, which uses function F, the order I would like to be able to achieve is

turn off dependency checks
1. create V
2. create F
turn dependency checks back on

Thanks.

Answer 1

This is called deferred name resolution and while you can create a proc that select from a table if the table does not exists you cannot do that with a view that uses a function

example of the proc

create procedure prTest
as select * from MyTestTable
go

create table MyTestTable(id int)
go

exec prTest