Subject | Re: Constraints - Cascade Delete from multiple parent tables |
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Author | Bhavbhuti Nathwani |
Post date | 2006-12-30T14:12:35Z |
Hi Alan
--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Alan McDonald" <alan@...> wrote:
> you cannot use the system FK constraint mechanism for this setup.
You cannot
> have a "multi-homed" foreign key. You can, however, use before delete
> triggers on the parent table to delete records in your transaction
table.
> The only other way to use system cascading deletes in this situation
is to
> have separate transaction tables for each parent. You can always
union the
> tables to gether if you want result sets which combing them.
Happy New Year!!!
Thanks for your response. I took your advise and created a Trigger
and I have the required results.
Thanks.
Regards
Bhavbhuti