fporto wrote:
Narayanan-4 wrote:
fporto wrote:
Hi,
 I'm receiving the following message when trying to drop a table:

ERROR X0Y25: Operation 'DROP CONSTRAINT' cannot be performed on object
'SQL080516103912600' because CONSTRAINT 'SQL080525110646121' is dependent
on
that object.

I would like to obtain the list of constraints associated to each of my
tables.
I've tried to use the Describe SQL command but it doesn't print
constraint
info.

I've also tried to query system tables:sysconstraints, sysdepends but
couldn't find the objects referred to in the msgs.

Can someone there help me on this?

cheers,
Fabio.
I tried this

select CONSTRAINTNAME from sys.SYSCONSTRAINTS,sys.systables where sys.systables.tablename='NARAYANAN' and sys.sysconstraints.tableid=sys.systables.tableid;

Replace the tablename with the name of the table for which you want to find the constraints.

Narayanan



Thanks Narayanan,

 in fact when I query the table sys.sysconstraints the refered constraint id
is not there:

select * from sys.sysconstraints where constraintid= 'SQL080525110646121';
CONSTRAINTID |TABLEID |CONSTRAINTNAME |&|SCHEMAID |&|REFERENCEC&
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

0 rows selected
--

It seems to me that there is some dangling reference. In fact, this error
message appears when dropping the table databases:

ij> describe databases;
COLUMN_NAME |TYPE_NAME|DEC&|NUM&|COLUM&|COLUMN_DEF|CHAR_OCTE&|IS_NULL&
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DBID |DECIMAL |0 |10 |4 |NULL |NULL |NO HOSTSHORT |VARCHAR |NULL|NULL|20 |NULL |40 |YES IRI |VARCHAR |NULL|NULL|100 |NULL |200 |YES DRIVERNAME |VARCHAR |NULL|NULL|150 |NULL |300 |YES DATABASETYPE |DECIMAL |0 |10 |2 |NULL |NULL |YES SERVERID |NUMERIC |0 |10 |2 |NULL |NULL |YES
6 rows selected
ij> drop table databases;
ERROR X0Y25: Operation 'DROP CONSTRAINT' cannot be performed on object
'SQL080516103925800' because CONSTRAINT 'SQL080525110734830' is dependent on
that object.

ij> select * from sys.sysconstraints where constraintid=
'SQL080525110734830';
CONSTRAINTID |TABLEID |CONSTRAINTNAME |&|SCHEMAID |&|REFERENCEC&
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

0 rows selected.

Fabio.
Can you confirm that the table drop operation did not succeed? Not sure how a drop constraint operation
can fail but the constraints will not be present.

Narayanan

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