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30/11/2010 15:32:31
Mike Cole
Yellow Lab Technologies
Stanley, Iowa, United States
 
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Microsoft SQL Server
Category:
Scripting
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SQL Server:
SQL Server 2005
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01491153
Message ID:
01491183
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Installing SP2 now...

>You're right, doesn't work. I trusted the blog myself, so haven't tried. But I just tried on a test database I have and got a similar error.
>
>Try alternative solution (also referenced in the comments to that blog)
>
>http://nathondalton.wordpress.com/2010/08/12/delete-table-data-reset-identities-in-sql/
>
>or solution #1 from the blog itself.
>
>>>>Yeah, but that complains when I have FK constraints set.
>>>
>>>Take a look at this blog post
>>>
>>>Delete all data in all tables in a database when you have foreign keys
>>>
>>>From comment by Denis Gobo to this blog post:
>>>
>>>
>>>-- disable referential integrity
>>>EXEC sp_MSForEachTable 'ALTER TABLE ? NOCHECK CONSTRAINT ALL' 
>>>GO 
>>>
>>>EXEC sp_MSForEachTable 'TRUNCATE TABLE ?' 
>>>GO 
>>>
>>>-- enable referential integrity again 
>>>EXEC sp_MSForEachTable 'ALTER TABLE ? CHECK CONSTRAINT ALL' 
>>>GO 
>>>
>>
>>Hmmm, I run the following:
>>
>>
>>EXEC sp_MSForEachTable 'ALTER TABLE ? NOCHECK CONSTRAINT ALL'
>>GO
>>EXEC sp_MSForEachTable 'TRUNCATE TABLE ?' 
>>GO
>>EXEC sp_MSForEachTable 'ALTER TABLE ? CHECK CONSTRAINT ALL' 
>>
>>
>>and I get
>>
>>
>>Cannot truncate table 'dbo.aspnet_Roles' because it is being referenced by a FOREIGN KEY constraint.
>>
Very fitting: http://xkcd.com/386/
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