G'day. I have a foreign key constraint numbered #1210 on the column EntityID in the table TranHeader. Without success I have tried the following ways to drop it and received the following error messages:
ALTER TABLE TranHeader DROP CONSTRAINT #1210 -ERROR- (something like "constraint name does not exist") DROP INDEX #1210 -ERROR- #1210 not found ( 46) DROP CONSTRAINT #1210 - Syntax is incorrect for the command DROP (2045) DROP INDEX TranHeader.EntityID -ERROR- INDEX not found ( 46) DROP INDEX EntityID IN TranHeader -ERROR- INDEX not found ( 46) After doing the above I deleted some duplicate foreign keys found by a schema checker and lo and behold the syntax in the first line now works. That was the first one I tried but forgot to include it in the first post. So, the moral of the story appears to be, "If you are having trouble dropping a foreign key, look for and delete any duplicate foreign keys." I will submit an enhancement request to RBTI to disallow exact duplicate foreign keys. Just a little side note, the schema checker misreported as duplicates where I had a primary and foreign key on the same column. Warmest regards, Tom Grimshaw coy: Just For You Software tel: 612 9552 3311 fax: 612 9566 2164 mobile: 0414 675 903 post: PO Box 470 Glebe NSW 2037 Australia street: 3/66 Wentworth Park Rd Glebe NSW 2037 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.just4usoftware.com.au "... the control of impulse -- is the first principle of civilization."-- Will Durant, Pulitzer Prize winning philosopher, writer and historian the most needed product in the world can be found at www.thewaytohappiness.org This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential to the intended recipient and may be privileged. If you have received this email inadvertently or you are not the intended recipient, you may not disseminate, distribute, copy or in any way rely on it. Further, you should notify the sender immediately and delete the email from your computer. Whilst we have taken precautions to alert us to the presence of computer viruses, we cannot guarantee that this email and any files transmitted with it are free from such viruses. ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
