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dropping foreign key

What is the symbol to do for in "ALTER TABLE ... ADD CONSTRAINT symbol
FOREIGN KEY ..."?

In the manual, they say that "SHOW CREATE TABLE" gives the internal id
of the foreign key. Trying to do so, i see that it's not true...

How can I do to drop some foreign keys excepted the "DROP TABLE/CREATE
TABLE" solution because my tables have a lot of records...

my version is 4.0.12

thx

Jul 19 '05 #1
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