Cascade Update/deletes
Apr 28, 2008Hi guys,
A simple question of good practices: is it better to have a cascade update/delete on a table? Or is it better to do it "by hand" in a SP?
Thanks a lot.
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Cascade Deletes
Jun 11, 2002Hi,
We are developing a new oltp application using SQL Server 2000 and are debating whether to use "cascade delets" or not. In earlier apps, we had issues using cascade deletes like someone deleted parent by mistake and all child records got deleted OR SQL Server crashed in middle of cascade delete and records were lost or performance became an issue when there were huge # of child records to be deleted,etc.
Are there any recommendations for/against using Cascade deletes and when to use and when NOT to use cascade deletes ?
Thanks
Satish
Cascade Deletes In SQL 2005
Jun 14, 2006I have a logins table, a loginroles table (intermediate), and a roles table
When I delete a login from logins I need to delete the roles for that login from loginroles. I know I have to use cascade deletes, but I cannot find the option in sql 2005.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank You,Jason
Cascade Updates And Deletes
Feb 27, 2001It appears that SQL7 does not support options to set cascade updates and deletes in the Relations tab of the property sheet, but it is included in
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Aug 4, 2015I have a table which has a recursive relationship to its self neither of the columns involved are FK columns
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[ix_Trace](
[Trace_Id] [uniqueidentifier] NOT NULL,
[Trace_BubbledTraceEnter_Id] [uniqueidentifier] NULL,
[Trace_EnterId] [uniqueidentifier] NULL,
[Trace_Application_Id] [uniqueidentifier] NULL,
[Trace_Session_Id] [uniqueidentifier] NULL,
....
Where Trace_EnterId is the parent ID and BubbledTraceEnter_Id is the child ID. My test case has nested trace lines that go down 5 levels, but when I delete the top trace line, only the child directly under it is deleted leaving the other 3 as orphans. Here's the trigger:
ALTER TRIGGER [dbo].[DTrig_xTrace]
ON [dbo].[ix_Trace]
FOR Delete
AS
BEGIN
SET NOCOUNT ON;
DELETE FROM ix_Trace
FROM ix_Trace INNER JOIN
deleted as dt ON ix_Trace.Trace_BubbledTraceEnter_Id = dt.Trace_EnterId
How can I make this cascade all the way down?
Cascade Update
Jul 8, 2006Does anyone know how to do a cascade update in SQL 2005 using the studio manager?Basically, I have a project table with a status column. If the status is set to 2, then I need to update another table that references the project id.
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Aug 27, 2006Hello all,
I am new to SQL and I was hoping someone could explain something to me about 'on update cascade'.
I understand what 'on update cascade' does (i think) - it updates the child table when the parent table is updated.
What i do not understand is that the 'on update cascade' works on the primary key of the parent table, but i was on the understanding that the primary key doesn't change often if at all so why would the 'on update cascade' be of use?
Sorry for my ignorance and i realise i must be missing something simple but would be grateful for any help.
Thanks
Cascade Delete And Update In SQL 7.0
Jul 23, 1999Is it possible to cascade update and delete while DRI remains there ? That
is without deleteing refrential integrity. If anyone have example of cascade delete and Update using Pubs or Northwind Example , i'll be really obliged.
Problem With Cascade Update
Apr 8, 2007i want to reffer A1,A2 column from a Table A to B1 column of Table B. when i use the on update cascade option for the columns A1 & A2 i get an error for the 2nd one. sql:
alter table A
add constraint fk_key1 foreign key (a1) references b(b1) on update cascade;
alter table A
add constraint fk_key2 foreign key (a2) references b(b1) on update cascade;
after executing the sql i get the following error for the 2nd sql:
Introducing FOREIGN KEY constraint 'FK_key2' on table 'A' may cause cycles or multiple cascade paths. Specify ON DELETE NO ACTION or ON UPDATE NO ACTION, or modify other FOREIGN KEY constraints.
if i dont use cascade option then i dont get any error.
but i need to synchronize the data. now can anyone help me how to add the cascade option working for the 2nd column of Table A without seperating the column in a different table?
thnx
S ]-[ /- | ]-[ /- N
Cascade Update / Foreign Key
Jul 20, 2005Hi!For the sake of simplicity, I have three tables, Employee, Department andWorkEmployee >---- Department / /^ ^WorkThe Work table have two columns, empno and depno and consists that theemployee has worked on another department.Here is my scripts:create table employee (empno int not null primary key, depno int not null)create table department (depno int not null primary key)create table work (empno int not null, depno int not null)alter table employee add constraint fk_employee_department foreign key(depno)references department (depno)on update cascadealter table work add constraint fk_work_employee foreign key (empno)references employee (empno)on update cascadealter table work add constraint fk_work_department foreign key (depno)references department (depno)on update cascadeMy problem is the last command. SQL Server responds:Server: Msg 1785, Level 16, State 1, Line 1Introducing FOREIGN KEY constraint 'fk_work_department' on table 'work' maycause cycles or multiple cascade paths. Specify ON DELETE NO ACTION or ONUPDATE NO ACTION, or modify other FOREIGN KEY constraints.But I want the depno in the work table to be updated when a department.depnochanges a value.Does anyone have a suggestion on how to overcome this problem?Thanks in advanceBest regards,Gunnar VøyenliEDB-konsulent asNORWAY
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Jul 29, 2007i run this cmd to execute a cascade update to another database but did not work.
USE [testdb1]
GO
/****** Object: Trigger [dbo].[tgr_Upddb2] Script Date: 07/29/2007 08:34:47 ******/
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
ALTER TRIGGER [dbo].[tgr_Upddb2]
ON [dbo].[Table1]
FOR UPDATE
AS
BEGIN
SET NOCOUNT ON
UPDATE U
SET u.fk_fld = i.pk_fld
FROM inserted AS I
JOIN testdb2.dbo.table2 AS U
ON U.fk_fld = I.pk_fld
END
heres the db structure
Update And Delete Rule - Cascade
Jan 15, 2007Hi, I have a database which saves data about bus links. I want to provide a information to passenger about price of their journay. The price depends on three factors: starting busstop, ending busstop and type of ticket (full, part - for students and old people, ...).
So I created a table with three foreign key constraints (two for busstops and one for type).
When the busstop is deleted or type of ticket I want all data connected with it to be deleted automatically. I wanted to use cascade deleting.
But I receive a following exception: Introducing FOREIGN KEY constraint 'FK_TicketPrices_BusStops1' on table 'TicketPrices' may cause cycles or multiple cascade paths. Specify ON DELETE NO ACTION or ON UPDATE NO ACTION, or modify other FOREIGN KEY constraints.
How can I achieve my task? Why should it cause cycles or multiple cascade paths?
SQL Query For Setting Cascade On Update
Aug 22, 2007Hi,
I'm looking for a query I can use to alter table relationships. What I want to do in particular, is to set every relationship to cascade on update. Can anyone point me out to a solution? MSDN seems very vague in this subject.
Thanks,
Tiago
On DELETE On UPDATE Cascade Syntax Error
Dec 13, 2006Hello
I need to be able to regularly, update or delete data from my parent table and subsequent child tables from A to Z, each table contains data. However, I have having problems.
I have already created the tables with primary keys on each table and foreign keys linking each table to the next.
I tried to delete a row from the parent table and was given this error:
DELETE FROM [dbo].[DomNam]WHERE [DomNam]=N' football '
Error: Query(1/1) DELETE statement conflicted with COLUMN REFERENCE constraint 'FK_DomNam'. The conflict occurred in database 'DomDB', table 'Dom_CatA', column 'DomNam'.
I tried to insert an alter table query:
ALTER TABLE dbo.DomNamADD CONSTRAINT FK_Dom_ID
REFERENCES dbo.Dom_CatA (Dom_ID)
ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE
But on Execute I saw this error:
Error] Incorrect syntax for definition of the 'TABLE' constraint
What is wrong with the above syntax?
Or would it be better if I used a trigger instead because I already have foreign keys set within the tables?If so please give an example of the syntax for the trigger I would need to update and cascade data from all tables.
I would be grateful for any advice. Thanks.
Remove Cascade Update And Delete From Table
Jul 12, 2007hello, once upon a time when i created my db (originally in access then used the conversion tool, which i now know is wrong!) i thought it would be an amazing idea to have cascading updates and deletes, however it turns out now this is exactly not what i want! if i leave them in then it throws errors when i delete records out of my stock table as related records are in the order_line table here is the code (well i think so, im not the best at sqlserver as you probably can tell already) that im using if anyone can help or point me in the right direction that would be great, thanks USE [nashdfDB1]GO/****** Object: Table [dbo].[tbl_stock] Script Date: 07/13/2007 02:52:14 ******/SET ANSI_NULLS ONGOSET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ONGOSET ANSI_PADDING ONGOCREATE TABLE [dbo].[tbl_stock]( [Stock_ID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, [cat_id] [int] NOT NULL CONSTRAINT [DF__tbl_stock__cat_i__15502E78] DEFAULT ((0)), [sub_cat_id] [int] NULL CONSTRAINT [DF__tbl_stock__sub_c__164452B1] DEFAULT ((0)), [location] [int] NULL CONSTRAINT [DF__tbl_stock__locat__173876EA] DEFAULT ((0)), [n_or_sh] [varchar](50) NULL, [title] [varchar](255) NULL, [description] [varchar](255) NULL, [size] [varchar](50) NULL, [colour] [varchar](50) NULL, [cost_price] [decimal](9, 2) NULL CONSTRAINT [DF__tbl_stock__cost___182C9B23] DEFAULT ((0)), [selling_price] [decimal](9, 2) NULL CONSTRAINT [DF__tbl_stock__selli__1920BF5C] DEFAULT ((0)), [qty] [varchar](50) NULL, [date] [datetime] NULL CONSTRAINT [DF__tbl_stock__date__1A14E395] DEFAULT (getdate()), [condition] [varchar](255) NULL, [notes] [varchar](255) NULL, [visible] [bit] NULL CONSTRAINT [DF__tbl_stock__visib__1B0907CE] DEFAULT ((1)), [picture1] [varchar](50) NULL, [picture1_thumb] [varchar](50) NULL, [picture2] [varchar](50) NULL, [picture2_thumb] [varchar](50) NULL, [picture3] [varchar](50) NULL, [picture3_thumb] [varchar](50) NULL, [picture4] [varchar](50) NULL, [picture4_thumb] [varchar](50) NULL, [display_price] [varchar](50) NULL, [created_by] [varchar](50) NULL, [buying_in_recipt] [varchar](255) NULL, CONSTRAINT [tbl_stock$PrimaryKey] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED ( [Stock_ID] ASC)WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON [PRIMARY]) ON [PRIMARY] GO
SET ANSI_PADDING OFF
Regards
Jez
Query For Setting Cascade On Update In Table Relationships
Aug 22, 2007Hi,
I'm looking for a query I can use to alter table relationships. What I want to do in particular, is to set every relationship to cascade on update. Can anyone point me out to a solution? MSDN seems very vague in this subject.
Thanks,
Tiago
How To Alter The Table With Delete/update Cascade Without Recreating The Table
Jul 26, 2004I have contract table which has built in foreign key constrains. How can I alter this table for delete/ update cascade without recreating the table so whenever studentId/ contactId is modified, the change is effected to the contract table.
Thanks
************************************************** ******
Contract table DDL is
create table contract(
contractNum int identity(1,1) primary key,
contractDate smalldatetime not null,
tuition money not null,
studentId char(4) not null foreign key references student (studentId),
contactId int not null foreign key references contact (contactId)
);
Cascading Deletes
Dec 21, 1998I need some suggestions concerning the issue cascading deletes in a self-referencing table, i.e. a table with a foreign key pointing at the primary key in itself. Although SQL Server still does not support cascading deletes the declarative way there are some other ways to handle this situation. One common way is to use trigger coding with the simple structure
CREATE TRIGGER DelCascadeTrig
ON self_ref_tab
FOR DELETE
AS
DECLARE @C_FK xxxxxx
SELECT @C_FK = C_FK FROM DELETED
BEGIN
DELETE self_ref_tab
FROM self_ref_tab, deleted
WHERE self-_ref_tabC_FK = deleted.C_PK
END
where C_PK is the primary key column and C_FK the foreign key column. The problem is that this simple pattern does not work with self-referencing tables, because the removal of dependent rows deeper layer (n-2, n-3 etc. if the originating delete request is level n and the first level of dependant deletes handled by the trigger code is n-1) would require the delete trigger to fire more than once for the same delete operation. As far as I know, in ver. 6.x triggers are executed only once per SQL statement and in this case the n-2, n-3 etc. level rows would have been left as "orphans".
In ver. 7.0 I suppose this should work fine because of the new recursive trigger execution possibility (trigger will fire up to 32 recursive times per SQL statement), but in the meanwhile (i.e. my case util we have upgraded all our servers) the delete logic for a cascading, self-referencing relationship must be handled completely within one execution of the trigger.
My question is now: does anyone know anything about any common algorithm or trigger code example solving this problem.
Thanks in advance
Bjorn Ehnberg
Cascading Deletes
May 24, 2004When I setup a relationship in Access I can specify that Primary Key deletes cascade down to the Forgien Key. So when I delete an Order Header it cleans up all the items in the Order Details table for me automatically.
Can I get this same functionality in SQL Server 7 without having to write triggers or are triggers the only way?
thanks
dog
Speedy Deletes
Mar 22, 2007I'm wondering if anyone has compared the speed of different kinds of deletes.
Assuming super large tables, I wonder, what is the speed ordering for the following operations:
* Remove a column
* Remove a row
* Remove a table
I'll experiment to see if I can get numbers comparing the speeds, but, if someone's already done the work, I'd love to know
thanks
Help With Cascading Deletes
Feb 7, 2008I haven't used cascading deletes in the past but we're starting a new database and it seems like a good way to go to keep data clean. Or at least it did seem like a good way until I ran some tests. I have 3 tables.
People PeopleEmails Email
(pk)peopleid (pk)peopleid (pk)emailid
fname (pk)emailid address
lname emailtype
password
In this structure, the peopleemails table is simply an association table between the email and people table. I have setup up relationships in a diagram so that when a person is deleted, it cascades to peopleemails and removes the entry there. I also had a cascade set up hoping that when an entry was deleted from peopleemails, it would remove it from the email table but this is not happening. The relationship between email and peopleemail is primary key table email.emailid and foreign key table peopleemail.emailid. Is there a way to get this to work to remove the email address if a peopleemail entry is removed? Thanks.
Trigger Deletes
Mar 23, 2007Hello,
I have three tables:
CREATE TABLE TASKS
(
SEQNO INTEGER NOT NULL IDENTITY (10000,1),
NAME VARCHAR(20) DEFAULT '' NOT NULL UNIQUE,
PRIMARY KEY (SEQNO)
);
CREATE TABLE JOBS
(
SEQNO INTEGER NOT NULL IDENTITY (10000,1),
NAME VARCHAR(20) DEFAULT '' NOT NULL UNIQUE,
PRIMARY KEY (SEQNO)
);
CREATE TABLE JOBTASKS
(
SEQNO INTEGER NOT NULL IDENTITY (10000,1),
JOBID INTEGER DEFAULT 0 NOT NULL REFERENCES JOBS(SEQNO),
TASKID INTEGER DEFAULT 0 NOT NULL REFERENCES TASKS(SEQNO),
PRIMARY KEY (SEQNO)
);
When I delete a record in JOBS I would like to create a trigger that would delete the related records in JOBTASKS.
This is my attempt; but it does not work.
CREATE TRIGGER JOBS_BEFORE_DELETE
ON JOBS
FOR DELETE
AS BEGIN
DELETE FROM JOBTASKS
WHERE JOBID = (SELECT SEQNO FROM DELETED);
END;
Thanks,
Steve
How Do You Write Multiple DELETES In Same SP
May 23, 2007I want to use one stored procedure to delete rows in three different tables - how do I write this for Sql Server 2000 please?
PROCEDURE dbo.DeleteSubmission @C_ID intASDELETE *FROM tblCompaniesWHERE C_ID = @C_ID
DELETE *FROM tblStoresWHERE CS_ID = @C_ID
DELETE *FROM tblDistributorsWHERE CD_ID = @C_ID
RETURN
Inserted Row Deletes After Trigger
Oct 22, 2007I'm hoping someone has seen this before because I have no idea what could be causing it.
I have an SQL 2005 database with multiple tables and several triggers on the various tables all set to run after insert and update.
My program inserts a record into the "items" via a SP that returns the index of the newly added row. The program then inserts a row into another table that is related to items. When the row is inserted into the second table it gets an error that it cannot insert the record because of a foreign key restraint. Checking the items table shows the record that was just inserted in there is now deleted.
The items record is only deleted when I have my trigger on that table enabled. Here is the text of the trigger:
GOSET ANSI_NULLS ONGOSET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ONGOALTER TRIGGER [dbo].[TestTrigger]ON [dbo].[items]AFTER INSERT
AS BEGIN
SET NOCOUNT ON;
INSERT INTO tblHistory(table_name, record_id, is_insert) VALUES ('items', 123, 1)
END
tblHistory's field types are (varchar(50), BigInt, bit).
As you can see there is nothing in the trigger to cause the items record to be deleted, so I have no idea what it could be? Anyone ever see this before?
Thanks in advance!
Cmdshell ... And Deletes Dos Files ?
Jun 21, 2001hello,
Can you give me an example of suppression under DOS, of the files with under-directories by exec cmdshell
thank you in advance
Pascal
Which Sp Deletes Files In Log Ship
Jan 10, 2005I have new client we changed the file retention period on for log ship on SQL 2000. Now the files are not being deleted. I looked at all the sp's but could not finde the one that actually deletes the log file that was copied over. I could just rebuild log ship but this is on a prod box, was trying to figure out what and when the files get deleted, and by what sp
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Oct 19, 2004Hi
I keep data in four seperate locations, each with different data retention.
the problem is, i keep the publisher "thin" - only 24 hrs of data) the data in the relevant tables is about 250000 a day) and these deletes are blocked at the subscribers by commenting out the body of the repl proc.
this does however cause a burst in bandwith & locks the subscribers, even though no actual delete takes place.
does anyone know if you can actuaklly NOT REPLICATE delete commands for specified tables at all - so that the message of the delete wont even be SENT to the subscriber?
Des
Deletes From Multiple Tables.
Nov 15, 2006Hello everybody,
We have a Master table in the Db who's PK is referenced in at least 60 tables as FK.
We want to delete all the dependent records in 1 go without using multiple delete statements or any cursor or loop.
Is it possible? Please advice.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Ashish
Rapid Deletes Cause A Deadlock
May 12, 2004Hello all.
Please help me shed light on the following problem:
I am deleting from 2 tables in a transaction. I experience a deadlock occasionally when deleting.
Here are the tables:
create table TABLE_1 (
ID integer not null,
TYPE_CD varchar(50) not null,
STATUS_ID integer not null,
NAME varchar(500) not null,
COMMENT varchar(500) null,
CREATED_DATE datetime not null,
CREATED_BY varchar(15) not null,
LASTMOD_DATE datetime null,
LASTMOD_BY varchar(15) null,
constraint PK_TABLE_1 primary key nonclustered (ID)
)
create table TABLE_2 (
TASK_ID integer not null,
TABLE_1_ID integer not null,
COMMENT varchar(500) null,
constraint PK_TABLE_2 primary key nonclustered (TASK_ID, TABLE_1_ID)
)
Table table_2 is an intersection table between table_1 and another lookup table (called task).
Whenever I delete from table_1 I need to delete from table_2 to maintain integrity.
The reason I do not have clustered indexes on the tables is b/c they start out empty (every day a housekeeping task deletes from them. Unfortunately I cannot change this...).
In my (web/jsp) application before I delete, I select from table_1 to get data I need to remember after the delete.
In order to avoid the "select for update problem", I use the "UPDLOCK" hint in the select like this:
select *
from table_1 WITH (UPDLOCK),
table_2 WITH (UPDLOCK)
where table_1.id = table_2.table_1_id "
and table_1.id = ?
and table_2.task_id = ?
I then issue my deletes in the following order:
delete from table_1
where task_id = ?
and table_1_id = ?
and then,
delete from table_1 where id = ?
The application sets the isolation level to READ COMMITTED.
The above 3 sql statements are executed as part of a transaction. Occasionally, when I drive the application, I get a deadlock. This happens intermittently. I have been able to reproduce the problem by attempting to delete records really fast, one after the other from the (web) front end.
When the deadlock occurs these are the locks that are held by the running processes:
Blocked SPID (10):
============
Object Lock Type Mode Status Owner Index Resource
app DB S GRANT Sess TABLE_2
app.dbo.TABLE_1 TAB IX GRANT Xact TABLE_2
app.dbo.TABLE_1 KEY U GRANT Xact PK_TABLE_2 (a400f609034c)
app.dbo.TABLE_1 RID U GRANT Xact TABLE_2 1:157:3
app.dbo.TABLE_1 PAG IU GRANT Xact PK_TABLE_2 1:443
app.dbo.TABLE_1 PAG IU GRANT Xact TABLE_2 1:157
app.dbo.TABLE_2 KEY S WAIT Xact PK_TABLE_2 (6501eda29ac1)
app.dbo.TABLE_2 KEY S GRANT Xact PK_TABLE_2 (ef007b1066ea)
app.dbo.TABLE_2 TAB IS GRANT Xact TABLE_2
app.dbo.TABLE_2 PAG IS GRANT Xact PK_TABLE_2 1:252
Blocking SPID (12):
=============
Object Lock Type Mode Status Owner Index Resource
app DB S GRANT Sess TABLE_2
app.dbo.TABLE_2 KEY X GRANT Xact PK_TABLE_2 (6501eda29ac1)
app.dbo.TABLE_2 RID X GRANT Xact TABLE_2 1:176:3
app.dbo.TABLE_2 TAB IX GRANT Xact TABLE_2
app.dbo.TABLE_2 PAG IX GRANT Xact PK_TABLE_2 1:252
app.dbo.TABLE_2 PAG IX GRANT Xact TABLE_2 1:176
I could not figure out what the problem is. Please help me with this.
Any help will be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Stop Replication Of Deletes
Jul 23, 2005Hello all. We are just getting started with replication and I'mwondering if there is a way to not have deletes replicated. I know Icould manually remove the delete trigger from every table but I'mintrested in have this a bit more automatic (like when its creating thesubscription).ThanksStephen
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Thanks
David