Drop all tables, stored procedure, views and triggers

Sometimes, there is a case, when we need to remove all tables, stored procedure, views and triggers completely from the database. If you have around 100 tables, stored procedure and views in your database, to remove these, completely from database became a tedious task. In this article, I would like to share the script by which you can remove tables, stored procedure, views and triggers completely from database.

Remove all Tables

 -- drop all user defined tables
EXEC sp_MSforeachtable @command1 = "DROP TABLE ?" 

Remove all User-defined Stored Procedures

 -- drop all user defined stored procedures
Declare @procName varchar(500) 
Declare cur Cursor For Select [name] From sys.objects where type = 'p' 
Open cur 
Fetch Next From cur Into @procName 
While @@fetch_status = 0 
Begin 
 Exec('drop procedure ' + @procName) 
 Fetch Next From cur Into @procName 
End
Close cur 
Deallocate cur 

Remove all Views

 -- drop all user defined views
Declare @viewName varchar(500) 
Declare cur Cursor For Select [name] From sys.objects where type = 'v' 
Open cur 
Fetch Next From cur Into @viewName 
While @@fetch_status = 0 
Begin 
 Exec('drop view ' + @viewName) 
 Fetch Next From cur Into @viewName 
End
Close cur 
Deallocate cur 

Remove all Triggers

 -- drop all user defined triggers
Declare @trgName varchar(500) 
Declare cur Cursor For Select [name] From sys.objects where type = 'tr' 
Open cur 
Fetch Next From cur Into @trgName 
While @@fetch_status = 0 
Begin 
 Exec('drop trigger ' + @trgName) 
 Fetch Next From cur Into @trgName 
End
Close cur 
Deallocate cur 

What do you think?

I hope you will enjoy these tricks while working with SQL Server. I would like to have feedback from my blog readers. Your valuable feedback, question, or comments about this article are always welcome.

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