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-----Original Message----- From: Kishore Jalleda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: August 19, 2005 10:35 PM To: John Gonzales Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: need help with foreign keys, new to mysql check the permissions on the mysql data dir, may be the user mysql or who ever runs mysql does not have sufficient privileges Kishore Jalleda On 8/19/05, John Gonzales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i am creating my own little blog and i am trying to create a comments table > that uses the primary key of my blog table as a foreign key. i've tried the > only two ways that i know how and both ways yielded the same error: > > #1005 - Can't create table '.\mydatabase\comments.frm' (errno: 150) > > i orginally created the comments table before i read about FOREIGN KEYS, so > i tried executing the following command: > > ALTER TABLE comments > ADD FOREIGN KEY(comment_journal_id) > REFERENCES journal(journal_id) > ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE; > > which resulted with the same error as listed above. so not really knowing > what i was doing, i decided to try and create the comments table from > scratch using the following the command thinking that it might work (which > it didn't): > > CREATE TABLE comments( > comment_id INT, > journal_id INT, > INDEX jrn_ind( journal_id ) , > FOREIGN KEY ( journal_id ) REFERENCES journal( journal_id ) > ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE > ) TYPE = INNODB > > now before i go and do something stupid, i thought i might ask for some help > on this issue :D both my blog and comments tables are InnoDB. > > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
