Re: a simple question about FKs

You did it right.
It's just the way oracle works.

Igor Neyman, OCP DBA
ineyman_at_perceptron.com

• Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 9:43 AM

> 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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