Finding foreign keys of a child table,grandchild and all dependendents

Question

Hi All,
I just came up with this sceanrio
I have to delete a record in a parent table with a condition provided will have to find all the child tables depends on it and should recursively find all the dependents of the child table.
How to achieve this.Please help with a query or guide.Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Thanks visakh it gave me an idea and this script helped me
DECLARE @mytable VARCHAR(30) SET @mytable = 'test'
DECLARE @RecordID VARCHAR(8)
SET @RecordID = '00000001'
DECLARE @Order INT SET @Order = 0
DECLARE @Count INT
declare @tblname varchar(100),@query NVARCHAR(max)
if OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#OrderList','U') is not null
DROP TABLE #OrderList
CREATE TABLE #TEMP
OrderNo INT,
TableName VARCHAR(50)
CREATE TABLE #OrderList
RecordNo INT,
OrderNo INT,
TableName VARCHAR(50)
INSERT INTO #TEMP
VALUES ( @Order,
@mytable )
WHILE ( EXISTS(SELECT TableName
FROM #TEMP
WHERE OrderNo = @Order) )
BEGIN
SET @Order= @Order + 1;
INSERT INTO #TEMP
SELECT @Order,
t1.TABLE_NAME AS PointsFrom
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.REFERENTIAL_CONSTRAINTS r
JOIN INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS t1
ON t1.CONSTRAINT_NAME = r.CONSTRAINT_NAME
JOIN INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS t2
ON t2.CONSTRAINT_NAME = r.UNIQUE_CONSTRAINT_NAME
WHERE t2.table_name IN (SELECT TableName
FROM #TEMP
WHERE OrderNo = ( @Order - 1 ))
END
INSERT INTO #OrderList
SELECT Row_number() OVER (ORDER BY OrderNo, TableName),
#TEMP.OrderNo,
#TEMP.TableName
FROM #TEMP
DROP TABLE #TEMP
--SELECT * FROM #OrderList
SET @Count = (SELECT Max(RecordNo)
FROM #OrderList)
WHILE (@Count <> 0 )
BEGIN
select @tblname = TableName FROM #OrderList WHERE RecordNo = @Count
select @query = 'DELETE from '+ @tblname
select @query
exec sp_executesql @query
SET @Count = @Count-1
END