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SQL SERVER – Listing Foreign Key Relationships of Table with Stored Procedure sp_fkeys

Pinal Dave
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A very cool trick which I have previously not shared on my blog regarding how to list all the foreign key relationship of table with the help of Stored Procedure sp_fkeys.

Here is a quick script how you can use stored procedure sp_fkeys to list all the foreign key relationship. This stored procedure takes a minimum of two parameters a) name of the table, b) name of the schema.

USE AdventureWorks2012;
GO
EXEC sp_fkeys @pktable_name = N'Employee',
@pktable_owner = N'HumanResources';

Here is the output generated from the script listed above:

SQL SERVER - Listing Foreign Key Relationships of Table with Stored Procedure sp_fkeys sp_fkeys

Here is an alternate way to list the keys as well – Two Methods to Retrieve List of Primary Keys and Foreign Keys of Database.

Reference: Pinal Dave (https://blog.sqlauthority.com)

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  • John Turner
    May 11, 2017 3:13 am

    sp_fkeys doesn’t seem to find composite keys. Any Idea how to find those as well?

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