Re: [SQL] Can i force deletion of dependent rows?

2010-02-13 Thread Shruthi A
Thanks people, but the trigger doesnt really solve my problem. You see, there is actually a CHAIN of dependencies where B references A, C references B, D and E reference C and so on... So if i start writing triggers for all these, there'll be a huge process to follow. I'm not strictly against i

[SQL] Can i force deletion of dependent rows?

2010-02-12 Thread Shruthi A
Hello, I have 2 tables (A and B) where the table B has a foreign key reference to table A. Like this: create table A (x int primary key); create table B (y int primary key, z int references A (x) ); As you can see, i've not specified any further 'on delete' clause to the foreign key constraint

[SQL] How to get the previous date?

2009-10-14 Thread Shruthi A
Hi, I'm using Enterprise DB PostgresPlus version 8.3. Is there is a simple function or command like previous_date(mydate) which when passed a particular date, simply returns the previous date? I tried mydate - 1 but this doesnt work. Thanks, Shruthi

[SQL] Can i customize null-padding for outer joins?

2009-09-30 Thread Shruthi A
Hello, I have a query where I full-outer-join 2 tables, and all the columns other than the join column are numerical columns. For my further calculations i need to pad the unmatched tuples with 0 (zero) instead of NULL so that I can perform meaningful mathematical calculations on them. Is this cur