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DELETE from more than one table

DELETE from more than one table

2004-06-08       - By Michael Stassen

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The manual says ON DELETE CASCADE with foreign keys is available for InnoDB
tables starting with mysql 3.23.50
< http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/InnoDB_foreign_key_constraints.html >.

Michael

shaun thornburgh wrote:

> Hi Robert,
>
> Thanks for the reply but unfortunately I am still using version 3.23.54
> and I am unable to change it!
>
>
> > From: "Robert A. Rosenberg " <MySQL@(protected) >
> >
> > At 14:01 +0000 on 06/07/2004, shaun thornburgh wrote about Re: DELETE
> > from more than one table:
> >
> > > Hi Paul,
> > >
> > > Thanks for the reply.
> > >
> > > I actually need to delete data from about 10 tables, is this possible?
> >
> >
> > If the field in the tables is defined as a Foreign Key (with ON DELETE
> > CASCADE), deleting the root key will do this (you can then insert it
> > if you did not want to delete it but only the records that pointed at
> > it). I do not know how helpful this is.


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