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Suggestion for Dropping table
sriramphani
Posts: 8
Hi,
While scripting "drop table" like
PRINT N'Dropping [dbo].[Print]'
GO
DROP TABLE [dbo].[Print]
GO
If you could add
PRINT N'Dropping [dbo].[Print]'
GO
IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.objects WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[Print]') AND type = N'U'
DROP TABLE [dbo].[Print]
GO
Then it will be more useful. In SQL 2008, if I script the table to drop, it will give me a script similar to the one that I suggested.
Thanks,
Sriram.
While scripting "drop table" like
PRINT N'Dropping [dbo].[Print]'
GO
DROP TABLE [dbo].[Print]
GO
If you could add
PRINT N'Dropping [dbo].[Print]'
GO
IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.objects WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[Print]') AND type = N'U'
DROP TABLE [dbo].[Print]
GO
Then it will be more useful. In SQL 2008, if I script the table to drop, it will give me a script similar to the one that I suggested.
Thanks,
Sriram.
Comments
Thanks for your suggestion. This is in our bug tracking system as a request for enhancement (SC-4044). SQL Compare doesn't check the existence of tables because it is designed to produce a script to be run immediately on the databases being compared, and therefore it's assumed that the object does exist because it was there during the comparison.
What we really need to do is have an option to create migration scripts that were not necessarily designed to be run in-place.