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laddu
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

332 Posts

Posted - 2010-11-03 : 13:39:15

Is there an easy way to drop all tables in a database from management studio. I am using SQL 2005

tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2010-11-03 : 13:47:51

select 'drop table ' + TABLE_NAME +
from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES

Run the script and the output until there aren't any errors (FK issues).

Tara Kizer
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TG
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

6065 Posts

Posted - 2010-11-03 : 13:51:50

Another way is to use object explorer to right click the database and select tasks | generate sql script. then go through the options. you can de-select "include create" and select "include drop". The constraints will be handled accordingly.

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madhivanan
Premature Yak Congratulator

22864 Posts

Posted - 2010-11-04 : 06:41:08

You can alos change truncate and delete table to drop table
http://beyondrelational.com/blogs/madhivanan/archive/2007/08/27/truncate-all-tables-part-ii.aspx

Madhivanan

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robvolk
Most Valuable Yak

15732 Posts

Posted - 2010-11-04 : 08:19:15

Yet another way:

exec sp_msforeachtable 'DROP TABLE ?'

As Tara mentioned you'll get errors if there are foreign keys, but multiple runs will drop them all.

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