Question

I have a table which has employee relationship defined within itself.
i.e.

EmpID   Name  SeniorId
-----------------------
1         A      NULL
2         B       1
3         C       1
4         D       3

and so on…

Where Senior ID is a foreign key whose primary key table is same with refrence column EmpId
I want to clear all rows from this table without removing any constraint. How can i do this?

Deletion need to be performed like this
4, 3 , 2 , 1

How can I do this

EDIT:

Jhonny’s Answer is working for me but which of the answers are more efficient.

Answer 1

I don’t know if I am missing something, but maybe you can try this.

UPDATE employee SET SeniorID = NULL
DELETE FROM employee