How to write query to Delete the records in child table
and corresponding records in parent table
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Answer / arijitnit
delete from child_table where values=...
on delete cascade..
U have to set the foreign key as the parent super key
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 11 Yes | 7 No |
Answer / dileep
Better you create a Trigger on child table like this one
CREATE TRIGGER trDelTrigger ON [dbo].[ChildTable]
FOR DELETE
AS
DELETE FROM ParentTable WHERE ParentTable.IdColumn=
(SELECT Deleted.IdColumn FROM Deleted)
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 9 Yes | 5 No |
Answer / krishna evsg
With help of temporary tables , we can do it made easy
create table #temp_ParentIDs
(
ID int
)
GO
Insert into #temp_ParentIDs
(ID)
select Parent_id from child_tab
GO
delete from Child_tab
GO
delete from parent_tab where parent_Id In(select * from
#temp_ParentIDs)
GO
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 4 Yes | 1 No |
Answer / krishnakumar
create table employee(id int references authors(au_id) ON
DELETE CASCADE,firstname(30))
this is chilld table .in this query use on first child table
constraints values delete next parent table constrains value
delete ... this is ON DELETE CASCADE CONCEPT
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 7 Yes | 5 No |
Answer / chaitanya
***********
Delete from P_table where P_Id=C_Id
***********
This is only aplicable if you have defined the foreign key
in the child table with the constraint on Delete Cascade.
Else you will get a Integration error.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 1 Yes | 0 No |
Answer / satyanarayana
I think using ON DELETE CASCADE we can delete the records
from both child and parent table
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 4 Yes | 4 No |
Answer / tester
Hi vaishali have u executed the query it is not working
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 6 Yes | 9 No |
Answer / surya
use this:
DELETE FROM childTable WHERE EXISTS(SELECT id FROM
parentTable WHERE parentTable .id = childTable .id where id = 1)
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 4 Yes | 7 No |
Answer / sanjay
delete details from details inner join master on
details.keyid=master.keyid
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 0 Yes | 4 No |
Answer / zackziss
delete from c from child c inner join parent
on c.childid = parentid
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 2 Yes | 11 No |
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