Deleting more than one row?!

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Deleting more than one row?!

peace2007

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June 8, 2008 at 2:10 am

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Hi,
1. open a table data in SQL2005 then select one row
2. right click on selected row and press delete
system deletes that record without any problem but when repeating the above scenario for more than one row it shows an error indicating that primary ID of ... (a non selected ID) is not removable
any idea is appreciated ( I know there's other way to do that easily but I'm just curious about this 😉 )

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003921 More actions · Answer 1

I can't duplicate the error. In other words, I get no error unless certain rows are being used by foreign keys.

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Matt Miller (4) SSC Guru Points: 124210 More actions · Answer 2

Jeff beat me to it - but that does sound an awful lot like a foreign key error.

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peace2007 SSCrazy Points: 2154 More actions · Answer 3

There's no foreign key defined:ermm:

thanks for your replies anyway 🙂

preetha.sathyamoorthy Ten Centuries Points: 1180 More actions · Answer 4

Have you created any function, stored procedure, trigger or Constraint for that table. If you have created any of the above for primary key, then also it will give problem.

Preetha SG

peace2007 SSCrazy Points: 2154 More actions · Answer 5

preetha.sathyamoorthy (6/8/2008)
Have you created any function, stored procedure, trigger or Constraint for that table. If you have created any of the above for primary key, then also it will give problem.
Preetha SG

That's the case :hehe: there's a function defined. but I wonder why it can be deleted via DELETE query?!

ChiragNS One Orange Chip Points: 26137 More actions · Answer 6

ChiragNS

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June 8, 2008 at 11:31 pm

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Hi

What does the function do?

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preetha.sathyamoorthy Ten Centuries Points: 1180 More actions · Answer 7

I think,the data you deleted with DELETE query is not matched with the function definition.

Preetha SG

Wilfred van Dijk SSCrazy Eights Points: 9003 More actions · Answer 8

Could you post the table definition (and function)?

Is there a computed column in this table?

Wilfred
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