From: Date: January 28 2004 10:56am Subject: InnoDB on delete, on update List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/158521 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0000_01C3E58D.546A54F0" ------=_NextPart_000_0000_01C3E58D.546A54F0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi out there, =20 i=B4m using InnoDB with foreign key constraints and i=B4m looking for = the default behavior of ON DELETE and ON UPDATE. =20 Secondly, what does the ON UPDATE NO ACTION option means? Ist the way it = is used in db2, that every child row must have some matching parent row. If this condition is not met,the Update fails and all changes are rolled = back? Or is the Update done? =20 What is the meaning of ON UPDATE CASCADE and ON UPDATE SET NULL?? =20 Thanks for your help =20 =20 =20 ------=_NextPart_000_0000_01C3E58D.546A54F0--