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Forum:
Microsoft SQL Server
Category:
Database management
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SQL Server:
SQL Server 2005
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Thread ID:
01457832
Message ID:
01457845
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35
>>Hi,
>>
>>I want to be sure that I am setting my FK constraint correctly and want to confirm that the following syntax will do what I want. What I want is on UPDATE of the UNIQUE key to update all foreign keys. And on DELETE of UNIQUE key to set all foreign keys to NULL (not delete). Here is my syntax:
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>>alter table... add constraint.. 
>>ON UPDTATE CASCADE
>>ON DELETE SET NULL
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>>Please let me know if I use correct syntax.
>
>Looks correct to me but I usually do it in SSMS and than generate a script

Yes. It's safer to do it in SSMS (specifically I do it visually in a database diagram because it is really easy). You can generate a script once SSMS has done it for future reference.
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