[thelist] oracle related database error

Jeremy Weiss eccentric.one at gmail.com
Mon Aug 30 08:20:19 CDT 2010


Daniel,

I use a program called Navicat in order to manage my databases. Using
it, I can see which tables are related to the table I'm viewing, and
by what fields. I'm sure other programs have a similar feature,
though.

-jeremy


On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 7:12 AM, Daniel Kessler <danielk at umd.edu> wrote:
> I'm working in Oracle.  I have a table of People with unique IDs.  I want to
> delete one of the people, but one of my other related tables has a
> relationship with that person, so I can't delete them, receiving the error
> "integrity constraint (DPCH.SYS_C0096833) violated - child record found".
>
> I understand the problem.  However, how do I determine which related table
> includes the person, so that I can go and delete the information for that
> related table?  I have about 100 tables.
>
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