Posted by Doug Lawry on 03/17/06 19:31

Look up "Cascading Referential Integrity Constraints" in Transact-SQL Help. This
does it for you!
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Regards,
Doug Lawry
www.douglawry.webhop.org


"CK" <c_kettenbach@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I have a one to many relationship between a billing table and a task table.
> I want to write a procedure I can pass a billingID to and it will go delete
> all the task records with that billingID as well as the as the single billing
> record. Like referential integrity.
>
> There are two other task tables taskcharge and taskfunding. When I delete a
> task from the task table I want to delete the related records from those two
> tables as well.
>
> Bottom line, I want to delete a billing record then delete then child records
> in the task table, as they are deleted I need to delete the taskcharge and
> taskfunding records child records of the task. The task table has the
> billingID field and a taskID field. The taskcharge and taskfunding tables
> have the taskID field only.
>
> Can this be done? I suggested trying triggers but this customer doesn't want
> to use triggers in delete operations. How do I accomplish this.
>
> Any advice is appreciated.
>
> Thanks in Advance,
> CK

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