Re: Delete across 5 Joined tables

On 15/08/2008 11:08, Fuzzygoth wrote:

> but I need to be able to delete from up to 5 different tables, is
> there a quick and
> simple way of doing this? can someone post an example?

Just guessing without more detailed information, but are the tables
related one-to-many using foreign keys? If so, when defining the foreign
key you can set the delete to cascade whenever a "master" row is deleted:

alter table foo
add constraint foo_fk foreign key [...]
on delete cascade;

...or something like that.

Ray.

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