Foreignkey reference

  • Hi ,

    Im making website using c# and sql2000. So my tables has so many foreignkeys. My problem is user trying to delete some record in my tables. But that record has foreign key reference. So i dont want to give permission to delete that kind of errors. But in my code behind i want to catch that record has some foreign key references.

    So How i track FOREIGN key reference . i want to know are there any common ID or common way to identify foreign key references.

    Thanks

  • If you have defined the foreign key in the database and have not included any Cascade options then the database will not allow a delete that will break the relationship it will return an error. The message will be:

    The DELETE statement conflicted with the REFERENCE constraint "Foreign Key Name". The conflict occurred in database "Database Name", table "Child Table Name", column 'Foreign Key Column Name(s)'.

    I know .NET has an error number for this, but I don't know what it is off the top of my head. You can catch the error and handle it in the front end.

  • sampath

    is the FK problem solved? like Jack said it should be 'Cascade' option while setting FK relationship. When setting relationship, if you check 'Cascade' you will not get issues when you update/delete. You can also catch the data being deleted in code-behind.

  • hi,

    First i want to thanks both of Grasshopper,Jack Corbett to replied me.

    Still my problem is same. Earlier i used cascade for delete my foreignkey references. But now i remove cascade. Mean now we cant delete any foreign keys.

    So my TOPIC Are there have any messeges or any number to find foreign keys.

    Jack showed foreign key deleting time how to show it. But i want to commonly identify it. I want to thanks jack. He told he dont know how to catch that in code behind and .net has some way. YES. .net can catch what is the error and is it database error or not and why its occured. But i want to find ARE THERE ANY DATABASE FUNCTION OR ANY OPTION TO IDENTIFY FOREIGN KEY REFERENCES.

    Thanks

    Sampath

    (SriLanka)

  • Well, apparently we all misunderstood your question. I think I understand now. You want to find out what all the Foreign Key constraints are in your database and I assume the columns that belong to them. Here is a query that returns the key information about foreign keys:

    [font="Courier New"]SELECT

       RC.Constraint_Name AS FK_Constraint,

       RC.Constraint_Catalog AS FK_Database,

       RC.Constraint_Schema AS FK_Schema,

       CCU.Table_Name AS FK_Table,

       CCU.Column_Name AS FK_Column,

       RC.Unique_Constraint_Name AS PK_Constraint,

       RC.Unique_Constraint_Catalog AS PK_Database,

       RC.Unique_Constraint_Schema AS PK_Schema,

       CCU2.Table_Name AS PK_Table,

       CCU2.Column_Name AS PK_Column

    FROM

       information_schema.referential_constraints RC JOIN

       INFORMATION_SCHEMA.CONSTRAINT_COLUMN_USAGE CCU ON

           RC.CONSTRAINT_NAME = CCU.CONSTRAINT_NAME JOIN

       INFORMATION_SCHEMA.CONSTRAINT_COLUMN_USAGE CCU2 ON

           RC.UNIQUE_CONSTRAINT_NAME = CCU2.CONSTRAINT_NAME

    ORDER BY

       RC.Constraint_NAME  

    [/font]

  • Thank you very much Jack,

    This message useful for my case.I needed this

    :smooooth:

    Regard

    Sampath

    (SriLanka)

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