How to drop a list of SQL Server tables, ignoring constraints?

Question

I have a list of half a dozen MSSQL 2008 tables that I would like to remove at once from my database. The data has been entirely migrated to new tables. There is no reference in

Answer 1

I suspect that you would have to do an 'alter' command on the offending tables before the drop to remove the forigen key contraints.

ALTER TABLE Orders DROP FOREIGN KEY fk_PerOrders;
DROP TABLE Orders;

Of course if you drop the child tables first, then you wont have this problem. (unless you have table A contraint to table B and table B constraint to A, then you will need to Alter one of the tables, e.g. A to remove the constraint)

e.g. this WONT work, since Orders has a contraint from Order_Lines

DROP TABLE Orders;
DROP TABLE Order_lines;

e.g. this will work

DROP TABLE Order_lines;
DROP TABLE Orders;