I have a categories table, which one of the fields serves as the foreign key for a sub-categories table. One field that serves as part of the primary key for each table is the language id. I need to update these in both tables. Basically, wherever the language id = x in both tables, I need to set it to y.
When I try to do an update on either table, I get a ‘The UPDATE statement conflicted with the REFERENCE constraint..’ which refers to the foreign key constraint.
How can I update the language field on both of these tables?
If you are doing a 1 time fix, drop the constraint, UPDATE and then add the constraint back.
If you need to do this as part of the application, insert one category row, update the sub-categories row, and then delete original category row.