RE: a simple question about FKs

2002-06-18 Thread Stephane Faroult
Hi. I was trying to truncate a table, which is a parent to two other tables (its PK is referred to by two FKs from two other tables). These other tables are empty. When I tried to truncate the parent table, however, I got an error message ORA-02266: unique/primary keys in table referenced by

Re: a simple question about FKs

2002-06-18 Thread Alexandre Gorbatchev
Hi Gene, You cannot truncate a table that is a parent in enabled FK constraints. You did the right thing. or you can simply delete (of course longer) with enabled constraints. -- Alexandre Hi. I was trying to truncate a table, which is a parent to two other tables (its PK is referred to by

Re: a simple question about FKs

2002-06-18 Thread Igor Neyman
You did it right. It's just the way oracle works. Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 9:43 AM Hi. I was trying to truncate a table, which is a parent to two other