Question

View can be dropped using the DROP VIEW command. Is there a solution for handling DROP TABLE if there is a view on a table?

I tried like

DROP TABLE ORDER_TBL CASCADE;

Is there another way in a modern DBMS?

Answer 1

Option 1:

If you run this script before DROP TABLE, it lists all objects that have a reference on your table:

SELECT DISTINCT so.name,so.xtype
FROM syscomments sc
INNER JOIN sysobjects so ON sc.id=so.id
WHERE sc.TEXT LIKE '%YOUR TABLE%'

If you want just views, you can filter the above query by AND s.xtype='V'.

Option 2 :

You can add WITH SCHEMABINDING to the definition of your view so you can not drop based table.