Schema-Qualified Foreign Keys in SMOscript

The MSSQL SMO library has some funny functionality and options (depending on your sense of humor).

If you tell an Smo.Table to script itself and its dependent objects (indexes, constraints, etc.) using its Script(ScriptingOptions) method, it will correctly generate the table name in Schema.Table notation (schema qualified), but the foreign key constraints to other tables will not contain the schema of the referenced table.

That is, unless you set the ScriptingOptions.SchemaQualifyForeignKeyReferences member to true. Thanks to user Oliver for pointing that out.

SMOscript has now been fixed and is available for download here.

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