Regarding Truncate Table including Foreign key constraint

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Many tables contain a Foreign key and I would like to truncate all tables using a stored procedure.

If any one have solution kindly mail me

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Slacker007 6-Jan-11 5:46am

Please give more information in your question. Thank you.

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tarun_j200 · Answer 1 · 2011-01-05T23:47:00

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You can not truncate a table which has parent-child relationship
It would be better if you first delete the records from the child tables and then from parent tables. Then reseed the identity (if any) of parent table to 0 using:
DBCC CHECKIDENT(tablename,reseed,0)

Posted 5-Jan-11 23:47pm

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Vivek Johari 6-Jan-11 22:26pm

Good Answer Tarun..........