WITH CHECK ADD CONSTRAINT followed by CHECK CONSTRAINT vs. ADD CONSTRAINT

Question

I\'m looking at the AdventureWorks sample database for SQL Server 2008, and I see in their creation scripts that they tend to use the following:

ALTER TABLE          


        

Answer 1

Here is some code I wrote to help us identify and correct untrusted CONSTRAINTs in a DATABASE. It generates the code to fix each issue.

    ;WITH Untrusted (ConstraintType, ConstraintName, ConstraintTable, ParentTable, IsDisabled, IsNotForReplication, IsNotTrusted, RowIndex) AS
(
    SELECT 
        'Untrusted FOREIGN KEY' AS FKType
        , fk.name AS FKName
        , OBJECT_NAME( fk.parent_object_id) AS FKTableName
        , OBJECT_NAME( fk.referenced_object_id) AS PKTableName 
        , fk.is_disabled
        , fk.is_not_for_replication
        , fk.is_not_trusted
        , ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY OBJECT_NAME( fk.parent_object_id), OBJECT_NAME( fk.referenced_object_id), fk.name) AS RowIndex
    FROM 
        sys.foreign_keys fk 
    WHERE 
        is_ms_shipped = 0 
        AND fk.is_not_trusted = 1       

    UNION ALL

    SELECT 
        'Untrusted CHECK' AS KType
        , cc.name AS CKName
        , OBJECT_NAME( cc.parent_object_id) AS CKTableName
        , NULL AS ParentTable
        , cc.is_disabled
        , cc.is_not_for_replication
        , cc.is_not_trusted
        , ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY OBJECT_NAME( cc.parent_object_id), cc.name) AS RowIndex
    FROM 
        sys.check_constraints cc 
    WHERE 
        cc.is_ms_shipped = 0
        AND cc.is_not_trusted = 1

)
SELECT 
    u.ConstraintType
    , u.ConstraintName
    , u.ConstraintTable
    , u.ParentTable
    , u.IsDisabled
    , u.IsNotForReplication
    , u.IsNotTrusted
    , u.RowIndex
    , 'RAISERROR( ''Now CHECKing {%i of %i)--> %s ON TABLE %s'', 0, 1' 
        + ', ' + CAST( u.RowIndex AS VARCHAR(64))
        + ', ' + CAST( x.CommandCount AS VARCHAR(64))
        + ', ' + '''' + QUOTENAME( u.ConstraintName) + '''' 
        + ', ' + '''' + QUOTENAME( u.ConstraintTable) + '''' 
        + ') WITH NOWAIT;'
    + 'ALTER TABLE ' + QUOTENAME( u.ConstraintTable) + ' WITH CHECK CHECK CONSTRAINT ' + QUOTENAME( u.ConstraintName) + ';' AS FIX_SQL
FROM Untrusted u
CROSS APPLY (SELECT COUNT(*) AS CommandCount FROM Untrusted WHERE ConstraintType = u.ConstraintType) x
ORDER BY ConstraintType, ConstraintTable, ParentTable;