a simple question about FKs

From: Gurelei <gurelei_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 05:43:20 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00480283.20020618054320@fatcity.com>

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 enabled foreign keys. I thought that as long as the child tables are empty, the RI shouldn't matter, but I had to disable the FKs before being able to truncate the table. Is that the way Oracle checks truncates (no enabled RIs even if the tables are empty) or did I do something incorrectly?

thanks

Gene

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