Comments on: MySQL: how to ignore checking of foreign key constraints for InnoDB tables

By: Naveen

Naveen — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 08:39:17 +0000

Thanks Alex! This is what I wanted.

Alex — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:00:44 +0000

Viktor,

Yes, it is possible to do something like this:

SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 0;
DELETE FROM `t`;
SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 1;

Also depending on your application needs you may want to consider setting foreign_key_checks = 0 permanently in the MySQL configuration file.

Viktor — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 14:07:48 +0000

Can it also be used in case you want to delete records with check

Jstall — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:16:41 +0000

Thanks much for this, don’t know why I didn’t look for a solution like this sooner.

Didier — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 15:44:06 +0000

Thanks, this helped a lit (again).

Darren L — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 23:53:35 +0000

Thanks this helped out.

gx — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:11:47 +0000

thank you, nice post

Abc — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:29:31 +0000

Thank you my collegues were looking for this for 2 hours and now they say it is team work! peh

Joao — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:42:06 +0000

Thank you, I was just looking for this.