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Constraint management

Add and drop constraints.

ON DELETE and ON UPDATE

With ON DELETE and ON UPDATE you set FOREIGN KEY behavior. Options are CASCADE, SET NULL and RESTRICT.

FOREIGN KEY (customer_id) REFERENCES customers(id)
  ON DELETE CASCADE

When the customer is deleted the orders are deleted too.

ON DELETE and ON UPDATE — details

CASCADE deletes/updates linked rows. SET NULL empties the linked column. RESTRICT blocks the delete. The default is RESTRICT.

Practice ON DELETE and ON UPDATE

Add customer_id FOREIGN KEY REFERENCES customers(id) ON DELETE CASCADE to orders.

Starter code

query.sql
-- add relation
CREATE TABLE orders (
  id INT PRIMARY KEY,
  customer_id INT,

Sample solution

query.sql
CREATE TABLE orders (
  id INT PRIMARY KEY,
  customer_id INT,
  FOREIGN KEY (customer_id) REFERENCES customers(id) ON DELETE CASCADE
)

Expected output

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Questions and answers

Review the lesson questions together with their answers. To test yourself, solve the lesson interactively.

1 Cascade

Question 
FOREIGN KEY (cid) REFERENCES c(id) ON DELETE ____;
Answer 
FOREIGN KEY (cid) REFERENCES c(id) ON DELETE CASCADE;

Explanation: CASCADE is the right answer.

2 Constraint management: match the terms

Term Meaning
CASCADE cascade
SET NULL set null
RESTRICT block
FOREIGN KEY relation

3 What does ON DELETE CASCADE do?

  • Sets the related rows to empty
  • Also deletes the related rows Correct answer
  • Keeps the related rows
  • Nothing

Explanation: CASCADE deletes linked rows too.

All lessons in Beginner

1 SELECT basics

  1. What is SELECT?
  2. Selecting all columns
  3. Selecting specific columns
  4. Column aliases with AS
  5. Literal values
  6. Summary - SELECT basics

2 WHERE filtering

  1. What is WHERE?
  2. Comparison operators
  3. AND and OR
  4. IN and BETWEEN
  5. Pattern matching with LIKE
  6. Summary - WHERE filtering

3 Ordering and limit

  1. ORDER BY
  2. ASC and DESC
  3. Multi-column ordering
  4. LIMIT
  5. OFFSET
  6. Summary - Ordering and limit

4 Project: CRUD app

  1. Project design
  2. Reading data
  3. Inserting data
  4. Updating data
  5. Deleting data

5 Data types

  1. Integer types
  2. Decimal types
  3. CHAR and VARCHAR
  4. DATE and TIME
  5. BOOLEAN
  6. Summary - Data types

6 Operators

  1. Arithmetic operators
  2. Comparison operators
  3. Logical operators
  4. IS NULL
  5. String concatenation
  6. Summary - Operators

7 String functions

  1. UPPER and LOWER
  2. LENGTH
  3. SUBSTRING
  4. TRIM
  5. CONCAT
  6. Summary - String functions

8 Project: Shopping cart

  1. Cart design
  2. Listing products
  3. Adding to cart
  4. Calculating total
  5. Removing from cart

9 Number functions

  1. ROUND
  2. CEIL and FLOOR
  3. ABS
  4. POWER and SQRT
  5. MOD
  6. Summary - Number functions

10 Date functions

  1. CURRENT_DATE and NOW
  2. EXTRACT
  3. Date arithmetic
  4. DATEDIFF
  5. Date formatting
  6. Summary - Date functions

11 NULL handling

  1. What is NULL?
  2. IS NULL
  3. COALESCE
  4. NULLIF
  5. Three-valued logic
  6. Summary - NULL handling

12 DISTINCT

  1. What is DISTINCT?
  2. DISTINCT on one column
  3. Multi-column DISTINCT
  4. DISTINCT with aggregates
  5. DISTINCT vs GROUP BY
  6. Summary - DISTINCT

13 INSERT

  1. INSERT basics
  2. Inserting into specific columns
  3. Multiple rows
  4. INSERT with SELECT
  5. DEFAULT values
  6. Summary - INSERT

14 UPDATE

  1. UPDATE basics
  2. Conditional UPDATE
  3. Multi-column UPDATE
  4. Calculated updates
  5. UPDATE pitfalls
  6. Summary - UPDATE

15 DELETE

  1. DELETE basics
  2. Conditional DELETE
  3. DELETE vs TRUNCATE
  4. Emptying a table
  5. Safe deletion
  6. Summary - DELETE

16 CREATE TABLE

  1. CREATE TABLE basics
  2. Column definitions
  3. NOT NULL
  4. DEFAULT
  5. PRIMARY KEY
  6. Summary - CREATE TABLE

17 Constraints

  1. UNIQUE constraint
  2. CHECK constraint
  3. FOREIGN KEY
  4. CASCADE
  5. Constraint management
  6. Summary - Constraints

18 Simple JOIN

  1. What is JOIN?
  2. INNER JOIN
  3. The ON clause
  4. Table aliases
  5. Multi-table JOIN
  6. Summary - Simple JOIN

19 Project: Inventory system

  1. Inventory design
  2. Product table
  3. Stock movements
  4. Stock report
  5. Low stock alert

20 Beginner final

  1. Customer query
  2. Order report
  3. Data update
  4. Table redesign