Similar but NOT IDENTICAL to SQL Server 2000 - Query a Table’s Foreign Key relationships
I need a T-SQL statement that will work SQL 2000 that given a table name, will return the foreign key relationships for that table e.g.
Table MyFristTable has a foreign key to MySecondTable, where MyFirstTable.ColA must be in MySecondTable.ColB. I'd be delighted, if the sql statement (or stored proc) is ran for MyFirstTable and returned a result set on the lines of
Column | FK_Table | FK_COLUMN
----------------------------------
ColA | MySecondTable | ColB
NB: I have samples for SQL 2005 that won't work because they rely on sys.foreign_key_columns
I'd rather not have to parse out the results of the sp_help statement.
Thanks,
DECLARE @tableName sysname
SET @tableName = '' -- Your table name goes here
SELECT
c.name
, target.name
, targetc.name
FROM
-- source table
sysobjects t
-- source column
INNER JOIN syscolumns c ON t.id = c.id
-- general constraint
INNER JOIN sysconstraints co ON t.id = co.id AND co.colid = c.colid
-- foreign key constraint
INNER JOIN sysforeignkeys fk ON co.constid = fk.constid
-- target table
INNER JOIN sysobjects target ON fk.rkeyid = target.id
-- target column
INNER JOIN syscolumns targetc ON fk.rkey = targetc.colid AND fk.rkeyid = targetc.id
WHERE
t.name = @tableName
NOTE I have I think used only those system views available in SQL 2000 (ie the sysXXX ones rather than the SQL 2005 sys.XXX ones) but I have only actually tested this in a SQL 2005 environemnt.