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ALTER TABLE .. DROP FOREIGN KEY

Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition   ✅ Express Edition   ✅ Professional Edition   ✅ Enterprise Edition

A FOREIGN KEY constraint can be dropped from the table using the ALTER TABLE's DROP FOREIGN KEY clause:

// Drop specific types of constraints
create.alterTable("table").dropForeignKey("fk").execute();

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

alterTable("t").dropForeignKey("c")

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

ASE, Access, Aurora Postgres, CockroachDB, DB2, Databricks, Derby, Exasol, Firebird, H2, HSQLDB, Hana, Informix, Oracle, Postgres, Redshift, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer, Snowflake, Sybase, Teradata, Vertica, YugabyteDB

ALTER TABLE t DROP CONSTRAINT c

Aurora MySQL, MariaDB, MySQL

ALTER TABLE t DROP FOREIGN KEY c

BigQuery

ALTER TABLE t DROP PRIMARY KEY

ClickHouse, DuckDB, MemSQL, SQLite, Trino

/* UNSUPPORTED */
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