RE: On delete cascade

2002-06-18 Thread Richard Huntley
Title: RE: On delete cascade Stephanie, wouldn't it be easy enough to find out what is referencing what?  If the developer doesn't know, just ask the DBA.  If the DBA doesn't know, then time to find another one.  The use of ON DELETE CASCADE is commonly use to maintain dat

Re:RE: On delete cascade

2002-06-18 Thread dgoulet
Fawzia, I'm going to disagree with just about everybody on this one. Assuming, and that is a BIG assumption, that the parent and child relationships have been properly established there is no real good reason not to use 'on delete cascade'. I've one &^%$ duhveloper

RE: On delete cascade

2002-06-18 Thread Stephane Faroult
>From: "Malik, Fawzia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 03:38:25 > > >Hi Gurus, > >I have just been told by a colleague that I must >not use "On del

Re: On delete cascade

2002-06-18 Thread Alexandre Gorbatchev
gt; Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 1:38 PM > > Hi Gurus, > > I have just been told by a colleague that I must not use "On delete Cascade" > as for sure it could have serious negative implications We need to be > able to remove an entry and to avoid writing a script (del

On delete cascade

2002-06-18 Thread Malik, Fawzia
Hi Gurus, I have just been told by a colleague that I must not use "On delete Cascade" as for sure it could have serious negative implications We need to be able to remove an entry and to avoid writing a script (deleteing children then parent) I was just doing to set the above

Re: Question on on delete cascade functionality

2001-07-24 Thread William Beilstein
While a ON DELETE trigger would do what you want, why don't you want to rebuild the constraint? >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/24/01 08:05AM >>> sounds like a trigger is needed. joe Ranganath K wrote: > > Dear DBA Gurus, > How to add the functionality of "on d

Re: Question on on delete cascade functionality

2001-07-24 Thread Joe Testa
sounds like a trigger is needed. joe Ranganath K wrote: > > Dear DBA Gurus, > How to add the functionality of "on delete cascade" to an existing foreign > key constraint without dropping the constraint and recreating it using > "Alter" command? > Thanks an

Question on on delete cascade functionality

2001-07-24 Thread Ranganath K
Dear DBA Gurus, How to add the functionality of "on delete cascade" to an existing foreign key constraint without dropping the constraint and recreating it using "Alter" command? Thanks and Regards, Ranganath DISCLAIMER: This correspondence is confidential and intended for t