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edyl
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 Posted - 2011-06-22 : 15:38:06
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Hello Everyone,I was trying to delete rows from a Customer table but ran into this error:quote:
The DELETE statement conflicted with the REFERENCE constraint "FK_Customer_to_Product". The conflict occurred in database "CoMart", table "dbo.ProductSale", column 'FKCustomer'.
As suggested in many of the posts, I went ahead and first deleted the corresponding rows from the referenced (child) table – ProductSale.After that I try again to delete the rows from the Customer table(parent) it still gives me the exactly same error message.I deleted the rows from the ProductSale table only as the error suggests that the constraint problem occurred only in this table. Do the rows need be deleted from all the tables that references the Customer table even though the error only points out to one?Btw what does it mean by REFERENCE constraint “FK_Customer_to_Product"? Is this the name of the constraint? Because, I don’t see that name in the Object Explorer when I expand the ProductSale table. I only see the column FKCustomer.All suggestions, recommendations greatly appreciated.Thanks in Advance |
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robvolk
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Posted - 2011-06-22 : 15:47:28
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| If you expand the Keys folder under the table you'll see the foreign key constraints.And yes, for each table that references Customer via a foreign key, you'll have to delete any (child) rows that have the same key as what you want to delete from Customer. |
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edyl
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Posted - 2011-06-22 : 16:08:13
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DELETE statement conflicted with REFERENCE content