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kapil_kk
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Posted Wednesday, October 17, 2012 8:39 AM
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I have a table with name roleMaster( Roleid,rollname). Roll id is a PK in this table which is coming from another table of another database with name Roles (roleid,rolename).
I am writing to a script to import data in rolemaster from Roles table and for this first I need to truncate the table Rolemaster. But I am not able to do it.
Plz tell me the way to truncate the rolemaster so that I can transfer the data from Role table to RoleMaster..
Its very urgent..
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GilaMonster
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Posted Wednesday, October 17, 2012 8:42 AM
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TRUNCATE TABLE RoleMaster
or, if it has foreign keys
DELETE FROM RoleMaster
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rajaster
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Posted Wednesday, October 17, 2012 8:44 AM
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Hi Kapil,
How are you trying to do this?, what error is being returned? try the above recommendations and if they do not work post further information. however it sounds like you have data being referenced by a foreign key elsewhere. in which case you may need to remove the links from that table also first before attempting to delete if you wish to avoid data becoming redundent.
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Posted Wednesday, October 17, 2012 9:20 AM
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truncate is not working..
Gives error-
Cannot truncate table 'rolemaster' because it is being referenced by a FOREIGN KEY constraint.
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kapil_kk
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Posted Wednesday, October 17, 2012 9:21 AM
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i tried by disabling the constraint on table roles master but after doing that also it didnt worked
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rajaster
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Posted Wednesday, October 17, 2012 9:27 AM
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you need to find the table that is referencing the data in your rolemaster table and remove it before you remove it. otherwhilst you will have a lot of problems on your hands further down the line. You need to follow Atomicity rules ie remove all associated data before proceeding to truncate the table.
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beebkhan (10/17/2012)
you need to find the table that is referencing the data in your rolemaster table and remove it before you remove it. otherwhilst you will have a lot of problems on your hands further down the line. You need to follow Atomicity rules ie remove all associated data before proceeding to truncate the table.
Hi
You don't have to delete the table referencing the rolemaster table data. You can modify its FK so that it takes some actions:
1. ON DELETE CASCADE (will delete the referencing rows)
2. ON DELETE SET NULL (FK must be nullable)
3. ON DELETE SET DEFAULT (the default value must be present in the parent table)
It's up to you what you want to do with the data in the table referencing rolemaster table data.
Regards
IgorMi
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Sean Lange
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Posted Wednesday, October 17, 2012 1:37 PM
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beebkhan (10/17/2012)
you need to find the table that is referencing the data in your rolemaster table and remove it before you remove it. otherwhilst you will have a lot of problems on your hands further down the line. You need to follow Atomicity rules ie remove all associated data before proceeding to truncate the table.
Removing the data won't help if there is a foreign key reference. A truncate will still fail. You either have to remove the foreign key constraint or issue a delete as Gail said in her post.
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kapil_kk (10/17/2012)
truncate is not working..
Gives error-
Cannot truncate table 'rolemaster' because it is being referenced by a FOREIGN KEY constraint.
Did you read Gail's post?
Pay close attention to the second part.
or, if it has foreign keys
DELETE FROM RoleMaster
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kapil_kk
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Posted Thursday, October 18, 2012 12:17 AM
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Hi,
delete from Rolemaster is working and all data gets deleted
But I want that if I disable the constraint of the referencing table and then disable the constraint of RoleMaster then also truncate not working, I think after disabling constraint of both tables truncate should work..
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