如何使用其他表中的外键删除具有主键的行？

Question

I have a table called 'agenda' //translation: dairy

with the following rows:

idagenda // primary key
title
waar
organisatie
...
etc.
...

I also have a table for the date of an diary item/event called agendadatum

with the following rows:

id // primary key
idagenda // id from other table
van //from
tot // till
datum // date

When the field 'tot' is the date from Today it will delete the rows from the database, but the rows in the 'agenda' table remain untouched. They're not deleted, because I did not call them.

My delete query looks like this:

DELETE FROM agendadatum WHERE tot < NOW(); 

How can I also delete the rows from 'agenda' table, that have the same id then the foreign key in agendadatum?

Answer 1

In your create table you need to mention the Foreign Key Constraint like

FOREIGN KEY (product_id) REFERENCES products (id)
       ON DELETE CASCADE
       ON UPDATE CASCADE,

and after that If you run the delete query, automatically the rows will be deleted, which is referencing the ids of the table

You can go through the explanation present in delete on cascade

Answer 2

if you are using php you can try the following

//get all agentadatum data with date now and before
$select_agendadatum = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM agendadatum WHERE tot <= NOW()") or die (mysql_error());
//loop through rows
while($row_agendadatum = mysql_fetch_assoc($select_agendadatum))
{
     //delete agendadatum row
     $delete_agendadatum = mysql_query("DELETE FROM agendadatum WHERE id = '".$row_agendadatum['id']."'") or die (mysql_error());
    //delete agenda row
    $delete_agenda= mysql_query("DELETE FROM agenda WHERE idagenda = '".$row_agendadatum['idagenda']."'") or die (mysql_error());
}

if your logic accepts more than one agendadatum per agenta you can simply count if there is more than 1 agendadatum in a specific agenta before deleting the agenta...

hope this helps

Answer 3

You can delete from multiple tables in one query:

DELETE agenda.*, agendadatum.*
FROM agenda
JOIN agendadatum USING (idagenda)
WHERE tot < NOW();

This will delete rows from both agenda and agendadatum, and only those rows matching the conditions (same rows as returned by the query if you replaced DELETE with SELECT ).