I have a mysql database with a lot of tables. Each table has InnoDB format.
I have a table called "companies". Each company has an account, account has transactions and there are lots of other related tables.
I want to delete some companies and all data related to them.
Each foreign key has "NO ACTION" on delete event.
How could I temporary delete all relations without manually setting ON DELETE CASCADE for each foreign key?
If you want to change fk on delete compartament you will do something like this
ALTER TABLE `table1`
ADD CONSTRAINT `fk_name`
FOREIGN KEY (`fk_table2_id`) REFERENCES `table2` (`t2`) ON DELETE CASCADE;
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I'm working on a little support (ticket) system. My tables are tickets and ticket_replies.
Design of tickets table is
id|user_id|title|...
Design of ticket_replies looks like:
id|ticket_id|...
The foreign key I added looks like this:
ALTER TABLE `ticket_replies` ADDFOREIGN KEY (`ticket_id`)
REFERENCES `sampleauth`.`tickets`(`id`) ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE;
Now when I delete a "ticket" in the "ticket" table it gets deleted in "ticket_replies" too. The other way this doesn't work, all in all I would like this to work the other way too, so my database has all the time consistency. How to do so?
Add this trigger will delete its primary key when you try to delete foreign key
CREATE TRIGGER `ticket_replies_BEFORE_DELETE` BEFORE DELETE ON `ticket_replies` FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN
DELETE FROM tickets WHERE id = OLD.ticket_id;
END
I have a website which has a users table and a movies table. I am creating a favourites table so that users can save movies to their favourites list. The question is concerning the favourites table which I have been adviced to use the below :
CREATE TABLE Favorites (
user_id INT NOT NULL,
movie_id INT NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (user_id, movie_id),
FOREIGN KEY (user_id) REFERENCES Users(user_id),
FOREIGN KEY (movie_id) REFERENCES Movies(movie_id)
);
I noticed when reading about foreign keys there is an 'ON DELETE' and 'ON UPDATE' option where you can set to restrict, cascade etc...
If a user has favourited many movies, and then one of the movies is deleted from the movie table, what would happen if it the foreign key was set to "CASCADE"? would any rows from the favourites table be deleted also? What would happen if the foreign key was set to "RESTRICT"?
I am just after a basic explanation as I do not currently fully understand this.
13.1.17.3 Using FOREIGN KEY Constraints
...
CASCADE: Delete or update the row from the parent table, and automatically delete or update the matching rows in the child table. Both ON DELETE CASCADE and ON UPDATE CASCADE are supported. Between two tables, do not define several ON UPDATE CASCADE clauses that act on the same column in the parent table or in the child table.
Note
Currently, cascaded foreign key actions do not activate triggers.
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RESTRICT: Rejects the delete or update operation for the parent table. Specifying RESTRICT (or NO ACTION) is the same as omitting the ON DELETE or ON UPDATE clause.
NO ACTION: A keyword from standard SQL. In MySQL, equivalent to RESTRICT. The MySQL Server rejects the delete or update operation for
the parent table if there is a related foreign key value in the
referenced table. Some database systems have deferred checks, and NO
ACTION is a deferred check. In MySQL, foreign key constraints are
checked immediately, so NO ACTION is the same as RESTRICT.
...
I have 2 tables :
Installers (Fields: id,company,country,experience,name)
Contacts (Fields: name,phone,address)
I would like to match both names, thereby I could click in one value of the name of Installers and it could show me the values of Contacts table.
However when I am trying to set up the foreign key (my child table will probably be Installers , as I have more tables like that and Contacts would be the parent.) It states this error:
query SQL:
ALTER TABLE `Installers`
ADD FOREIGN KEY (`name`)
REFERENCES `SOLAR_PV`.`Contacts`(`name`)
ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE;
MySQL ha dicho: Documentación
1452 - Cannot add or update a child row: a foreign key constraint
fails (SOLAR_PV.#sql-32a_183, CONSTRAINT #sql-32a_183_ibfk_1
FOREIGN KEY (name) REFERENCES Contacts (name) ON DELETE CASCADE
ON UPDATE CASCADE)
Both tables are InnoDB and Contacts.name is indexed as well as Installers.name
Primary Key of Installers is id and Primary Key of Contacs is name.
Any idea about what would be the problem?
It seems your child table contains few records those don't have in master, you can check it by below query-
SELECT id FROM Installers ins
LEFT JOIN SOLAR_PV.Contacts cnt ON ins.name=cnt.name
WHERE cnt.name IS NULL;
Note: Assuming name is int type for better performance as it is primary key in one table.
If you get few records by above query then you can follow below 2 approach-
Approach1: You can either delete these records in child table or insert in master table also and then you can create relationship by this alter command.
Approach2: If you don't want to change in your tables existing data and still want to execute your alter query then use as per below-
SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0;
ALTER TABLE `Installers`
ADD FOREIGN KEY (`name`)
REFERENCES `SOLAR_PV`.`Contacts`(`name`)
ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE;
SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=1;
Although there are some similar questions about the subject, I can't find the right answer for my problem. I have 2 tables called customer and car. What I want to do is this: When I delete a customer from database, I want the car that belongs to that customer will be automatically deleted as well. The code that MySQL Workbench generated for me is this:
ALTER TABLE `autocare`.`car`
ADD CONSTRAINT `customerId`
FOREIGN KEY (`CUSTOMER_ID`)
REFERENCES `autocare`.`customer` (`ID`)
ON DELETE CASCADE
ON UPDATE RESTRICT;
And I get this error:
ERROR 1452: Cannot add or update a child row: a foreign key constraint fails
(`autocare`.`#sql-80c_388`, CONSTRAINT `customerId` FOREIGN KEY (`CUSTOMER_ID`)
REFERENCES `customer` (`ID`) ON DELETE CASCADE)
There was no relation between those tables before. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
Your goal is ultimately to implement a cascading deletion from customer to car. When you attempt to add the constraint with the tables as they are now, it fails because the car table must include rows having a a CUSTOMER_ID value which does not currently exist in the parent customer table.
You should first locate those orphan rows and delete them (since your goal is to delete them anyway). You can find them with a query like:
SELECT *
FROM car
WHERE
CUSTOMER_ID NOT IN (SELECT ID FROM customer)
Once the orphan records are removed, the foreign key constraint can be met by the remaining existing rows and your ALTER TABLE statement will succeed.
I'm deleting selected rows from both table in MYSQL, the two tables have foreign keys.
DELETE d,b
FROM A as b
INNER JOIN B as d on b.bid=d.bid WHERE b.name LIKE '%xxxx%';
MYSQL complains about foreign keys even though I'm trying to delete from both tables:
Error: Cannot delete or update a parent row: a foreign key constraint
fails (`yyy/d`, CONSTRAINT `fk_d_bid` FOREIGN KEY (`bid`) REFERENCES
`b` (`bid`) ON DELETE NO ACTION ON UPDATE NO ACTION)
what's the best solution here to delete from both table?
Change this constraint to use ON DELETE CASCADE -- which means that if a row is deleted, then any "child" rows will be automatically deleted as well.
Of course take good care of using CASCADE -- only use it when necessary. If you're overzealous with it, and accidentally do a well-placed DELETE, it might end up deleting half of your database. :)
See documentation on foreign key constraints.
I think I see what you're trying to do
If you can't change the table structure, then you could use 2 statements, the first with a sub-select
delete from B where bid IN (select bid from A where name like '%xxxx%');
delete from A where name like '%xxxx%';