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A Unique Foreign Key issue in MySQL 8.4

  • Kedar
  • April 24, 2025
Recently, a friend reached out to me for help after encountering an error while restoring a MySQL dump during an upgrade from MySQL 8.0 to 8.4. The error read: At…
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MySQL – Alter table-change datatype of column with foreign key

  • Kedar
  • April 23, 2012
Schema alteration is a big headache especially when it has already reached to production and things get worse when the relations are involved.Below is a short example for altering tables…
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One response to “MySQL – Alter table-change datatype of column with foreign key”

  1. Hafiz Arslan Hafeez Avatar
    Hafiz Arslan Hafeez
    January 26, 2017

    Add this to get
    foriegn keys relationships of a table with its childs with

    SELECT `TABLE_SCHEMA`, `TABLE_NAME`, `COLUMN_NAME`, `REFERENCED_TABLE_SCHEMA`, `REFERENCED_TABLE_NAME`, `REFERENCED_COLUMN_NAME` FROM `INFORMATION_SCHEMA`.`KEY_COLUMN_USAGE` WHERE `TABLE_SCHEMA` = “my_schema” AND `REFERENCED_TABLE_NAME` = “my_parent_table”

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