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rajani
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

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Posted - 06/29/2006 :  00:55:38  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hi friends
am droppping a column thru sql stmt and am getting following error

The object 'DF__s_datavie__Overr__1DA648AE' is dependent on column 'OverrideCol'.
ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN OverrideCol failed because one or more objects access this column.

bcoz i've a default constraint on this column
my question is, how can i get list of default constraints on this column so that i can drop them first before dropping column. as you'll know that the constraint name can be different on each server having this table so i need to do this.
Thanks for the ideas.


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khtan
In (Som, Ni, Yak)

Singapore
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Posted - 06/29/2006 :  01:00:54  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
use

select 	object_name(cdefault) as Default_Constraint
from 	syscolumns
where	id	= object_id('table_name')
and	name	= 'column_name'


KH
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rajani
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

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Posted - 06/29/2006 :  01:12:05  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Thank you very much "kh "
that worked beautifully.

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khtan
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Singapore
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Posted - 06/29/2006 :  01:18:01  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
You might also want to check for CHECK CONSTRAINTS before dropping the column

KH
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rajani
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Posted - 06/29/2006 :  01:29:14  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
thanks KH.
in this case i dont . so i should be fine.
Thanks for ur help.

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madhivanan
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Posted - 06/29/2006 :  01:50:07  Show Profile  Send madhivanan a Yahoo! Message  Reply with Quote
SELECT cols.name as column_name, c_obj.name as constraint_name,t_obj.name as table_name
FROM sysobjects t_obj, sysobjects c_obj, syscolumns cols
WHERE cols.id = t_obj.id AND c_obj.id = cols.cdefault AND c_obj.xtype = 'D'

Madhivanan

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