>>Hi everybody,
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>>I'm having a Catch 22 problem and I'm thinking of a best way to handle it, may be you can suggest something.
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>>In my test class we have rollback property set to true and it automatically rolls back all SQL commands.
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>>This is good as I don't want my tests to create new rows in the database.
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>>Unfortunately, for the particular case I have right now I first create parent row and then in a separate method and separate command try to create a child row.
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>>Since the original transaction was rolled back, I am getting the Foreign Key violation error and can not really test my procedure.
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>>So, what is the best way to handle this situation - I don't really want to create extra rows, but I don't want to get the SQL error either.
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>>Thanks in advance.
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>Why do you have them in separate transactions? It seems that they are bound together.

They are two separate methods. For code re-use and maintenance.