If Foreign Key Not Exist Then Add Foreign Key Constraint(Or Drop a Foreign Key Constraint If Exist) without using Name?

Question

I am finding difficulties to creating a a query. Let say I have a Products and Brands table. I can add a foreign key using this command,

          ALTER TABLE Pr         


        

Answer 1

To do this without knowing the constraint's name and without inner joins, you can do:

IF NOT EXISTS(SELECT NULL FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.CONSTRAINT_COLUMN_USAGE WHERE [TABLE_NAME] = 'Products' AND [COLUMN_NAME] = 'BrandID')
BEGIN
    ALTER TABLE Products
    ADD FOREIGN KEY (BrandID)
    REFERENCES Brands(ID)
END

If you wanted to, you could get the name of the contraint from this table, then do a drop/add.