How to drop foreign constraints of table having foreign key constraints with hyphen in SQL?

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I want to drop foreign constraints of table having foreign key constraints with Hyphen in Sql

I am getting exception while dropping FK Constraints as shown below:

ALTER TABLE AB_Test DROP CONSTRAINT FK_AB-Test_1

Exception is as below:

Incorrect Syntax near '-'

What I have tried:

ALTER TABLE AB_Test DROP CONSTRAINT FK_AB-Test_1


Exception is as below:

Incorrect Syntax near '-'

Posted 26-Mar-18 2:22am

ranio

Updated 26-Mar-18 2:58am

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Rajesh Pandya 26-Mar-18 8:41am

Have a look at following URL, may be it will help
URL: https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/90033/how-do-i-drop-all-constraints-from-all-tables

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jgakenhe · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-26T02:59:00

Solution 1

You'll need to wrap the constraint with brackets.

SQL

ALTER TABLE AB_Test DROP CONSTRAINT [FK_AB-Test_1]

Posted 26-Mar-18 2:59am

jgakenhe