Deleting a row in a table

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I am facing a problem where i have a table(table1) of primary key constraint and a second table(table2) having a foreign key constraint for table one of particular field .
If i delete a row in table1 i get a error where i need to delete in table2 as well .
Is there a way or a query where if i delete a row in table1 the following foreign key constraint in table2 should automatically get deleted .

thanks in advance

Posted 7-Mar-12 6:43am

mohanrajkiller

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Vivek Krishnamurthy 7-Mar-12 12:48pm

You question is not clear, you mean to do cascaded delete from table 2 ?

mohanrajkiller 8-Mar-12 7:57am

i dont know the technical term i am not an expert in sql

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walterhevedeich · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-07T18:20:00

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What you can do is to set the Delete Rule of your foreign key to Cascade. See here[^] for steps on how to do it. What basically happens when you set it that way is that, when a record in table1 gets deleted, the corresponding record(through foreign key) in table2 will be deleted as well.

Posted 7-Mar-12 18:20pm

walterhevedeich