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Each relation is written in a row.</paragraph> 66<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3145609" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="6">Update options</paragraph> 67<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153061" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="7">Here you can select options that take effect when there are changes to a primary key field.</paragraph> 68<!-- removed HID DBACCESS_RADIOBUTTON_DLG_REL_PROPERTIES_RB_NO_CASC_UPD --> 69<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3149046" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="8">No action</paragraph> 70<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152360" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9"><ahelp hid="DBACCESS_RADIOBUTTON_DLG_REL_PROPERTIES_RB_NO_CASC_UPD">Specifies that any change made to a primary key does not affect other external key fields.</ahelp></paragraph> 71<!-- removed HID DBACCESS_RADIOBUTTON_DLG_REL_PROPERTIES_RB_CASC_UPD --> 72<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148664" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="10">Updating cascade</paragraph> 73<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154073" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11"><ahelp hid="DBACCESS_RADIOBUTTON_DLG_REL_PROPERTIES_RB_CASC_UPD">Updates all the external key fields if the value of the corresponding primary key has been modified (Cascading Update).</ahelp></paragraph> 74<!-- removed HID DBACCESS_RADIOBUTTON_DLG_REL_PROPERTIES_RB_CASC_UPD_NULL --> 75<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3145171" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="12">Set null</paragraph> 76<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154123" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13"><ahelp hid="DBACCESS_RADIOBUTTON_DLG_REL_PROPERTIES_RB_CASC_UPD_NULL"> If the corresponding primary key has been modified, use this option to set the "IS NULL" value to all external key fields. IS NULL means that the field is empty.</ahelp></paragraph> 77<!-- removed HID DBACCESS_RADIOBUTTON_DLG_REL_PROPERTIES_RB_CASC_UPD_DEFAULT --> 78<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150448" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="14">Set default</paragraph> 79<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151041" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15"><ahelp hid="DBACCESS_RADIOBUTTON_DLG_REL_PROPERTIES_RB_CASC_UPD_DEFAULT"> If the corresponding primary key has been modified, use this option to set a default value to all external key fields.</ahelp> During the creation of the corresponding table, the default value of an external key field will be defined when you assign the field properties.</paragraph> 80<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3125863" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="16">Delete options</paragraph> 81<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153193" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="17">Here you can select options that take effect when a primary key field is deleted.</paragraph> 82<!-- removed HID DBACCESS_RADIOBUTTON_DLG_REL_PROPERTIES_RB_NO_CASC_DEL --> 83<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3159252" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="18">No action</paragraph> 84<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145785" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="19"><ahelp hid="DBACCESS_RADIOBUTTON_DLG_REL_PROPERTIES_RB_NO_CASC_DEL">Specifies that the deletion of a primary key will not have any effect on other external key fields.</ahelp></paragraph> 85<!-- removed HID DBACCESS_RADIOBUTTON_DLG_REL_PROPERTIES_RB_CASC_DEL --> 86<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154146" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="20">Delete cascade</paragraph> 87<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155309" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="21"><ahelp hid="DBACCESS_RADIOBUTTON_DLG_REL_PROPERTIES_RB_CASC_DEL">Specifies that all external key fields will be deleted if you delete the corresponding primary key field.</ahelp></paragraph> 88<paragraph role="warning" id="par_id3153140" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="22">When you delete a primary key field with the<emph> Delete cascade </emph>option, all records from other tables that have this key as their foreign key are also deleted. Use this option with great care; it is possible that a major portion of the database can be deleted.</paragraph> 89<!-- removed HID DBACCESS_RADIOBUTTON_DLG_REL_PROPERTIES_RB_CASC_DEL_NULL --> 90<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3152596" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="23">Set null</paragraph> 91<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153363" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="24"><ahelp hid="DBACCESS_RADIOBUTTON_DLG_REL_PROPERTIES_RB_CASC_DEL_NULL">If you delete the corresponding primary key, the "IS NULL" value will be assigned to all external key fields.</ahelp></paragraph> 92<!-- removed HID DBACCESS_RADIOBUTTON_DLG_REL_PROPERTIES_RB_CASC_DEL_DEFAULT --> 93<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3145272" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="25">Set Default</paragraph> 94<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154320" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="26"><ahelp hid="DBACCESS_RADIOBUTTON_DLG_REL_PROPERTIES_RB_CASC_DEL_DEFAULT">If you delete the corresponding primary key, a set value will be set to all external key fields.</ahelp></paragraph> 95</body> 96</helpdocument> 97