MySQL Foreign key constraint - Error 1452 - Cannot add or update child row

Question

I've used the other posts on this topic, but I'm having no luck.

Here's the code I execute:

UPDATE tblOrderItems SET `ItemID` = 0004 WHERE `OrderNum`= 203 AND `OrderItemID` = 26

Here's my error:

Error Code: 1452. Cannot add or update a child row: a foreign key constraint fails (`cai0066`.`tblOrderItems`, CONSTRAINT `ItemID` FOREIGN KEY (`ItemID`) REFERENCES `tblCatalogItems` (`ItemID`))

Notes:

1. It happens when I either INSERT or UPDATE into tblOrderItems.
2. tblCatalogItems does have an ItemID of 0004. See: this

Here are the create statements generated by MySQL Workbench:

delimiter $$

CREATE TABLE `tblCatalogItems` (
  `ItemID` varchar(10) NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
  `ItemName` varchar(50) DEFAULT NULL,
  `Wholesale` decimal(10,2) DEFAULT NULL,
  `Cost5-10` decimal(10,2) DEFAULT NULL,
  `Cost11-19` decimal(10,2) DEFAULT NULL,
  `Cost20` decimal(10,2) DEFAULT NULL,
  `Retail` decimal(10,2) DEFAULT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`ItemID`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1$$


delimiter $$

CREATE TABLE `tblItemCosts` (
  `Cost` decimal(10,2) DEFAULT NULL,
  `VendorID` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `ItemID` varchar(10) NOT NULL,
  KEY `VendorID_idx` (`VendorID`),
  KEY `ItemID_idx` (`ItemID`),
  CONSTRAINT `VendorID` FOREIGN KEY (`VendorID`) REFERENCES `tblVendors` (`VendorID`) ON DELETE NO ACTION ON UPDATE NO ACTION
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1$$


delimiter $$

CREATE TABLE `tblOrderItems` (
  `OrderItemID` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `OrderNum` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `PayPalTxnID` int(10) DEFAULT NULL,
  `Description` varchar(225) DEFAULT NULL,
  `Quantity` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
  `UnitPrice` decimal(10,2) DEFAULT NULL,
  `ItemStatus` varchar(30) DEFAULT NULL,
  `TrackingNumber` varchar(50) DEFAULT NULL,
  `ShippingCost` decimal(10,2) DEFAULT NULL,
  `ItemID` varchar(50) DEFAULT NULL,
  `TotalPrice` decimal(10,2) DEFAULT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`OrderItemID`,`OrderNum`),
  UNIQUE KEY `PayPalTxnID_UNIQUE` (`PayPalTxnID`),
  KEY `PayPalTxnID_idx` (`PayPalTxnID`),
  KEY `UnitPrice_idx` (`ItemID`),
  KEY `OrderNum_idx` (`OrderNum`),
  CONSTRAINT `ItemID` FOREIGN KEY (`ItemID`) REFERENCES `tblCatalogItems` (`ItemID`),
  CONSTRAINT `OrderNum` FOREIGN KEY (`OrderNum`) REFERENCES `tblOrders` (`OrderNum`) ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE,
  CONSTRAINT `UnitPrice` FOREIGN KEY (`ItemID`) REFERENCES `tblCatalogItems` (`ItemID`) ON DELETE NO ACTION ON UPDATE NO ACTION
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=7678 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1$$


delimiter $$

CREATE TABLE `tblOrderItemStatus` (
  `OrderItemID` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `OrderDate` varchar(12) DEFAULT NULL,
  `DesignProofSent` varchar(12) DEFAULT NULL,
  `SubmittedToProduction` varchar(12) DEFAULT NULL,
  `InProduction` varchar(12) DEFAULT NULL,
  `Shipped` varchar(12) DEFAULT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`OrderItemID`),
  UNIQUE KEY `OrderItemID_UNIQUE` (`OrderItemID`),
  KEY `OrderItemID_idx` (`OrderItemID`),
  CONSTRAINT `OrderItemID` FOREIGN KEY (`OrderItemID`) REFERENCES `tblOrderItems` (`OrderItemID`) ON DELETE NO ACTION ON UPDATE NO ACTION
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1$$


delimiter $$

CREATE TABLE `tblOrders` (
  `OrderNum` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `PayPalTxnID` int(10) DEFAULT NULL,
  `OrderDate` varchar(50) DEFAULT NULL,
  `OrderStatus` varchar(10) DEFAULT 'New',
  `RushFlag` bit(1) DEFAULT b'0',
  `ShipName` varchar(50) DEFAULT NULL,
  `ShipEmail` varchar(100) DEFAULT NULL,
  `ShipAddress1` varchar(50) DEFAULT NULL,
  `ShipAddress2` varchar(50) DEFAULT NULL,
  `ShipCity` varchar(50) DEFAULT NULL,
  `ShipState` char(2) DEFAULT NULL,
  `ShipZip` varchar(10) DEFAULT NULL,
  `ShippingCharge` decimal(10,2) DEFAULT NULL,
  `TotalCost` decimal(10,2) DEFAULT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`OrderNum`),
  UNIQUE KEY `PayPalTxnID_UNIQUE` (`PayPalTxnID`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=346 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1$$


delimiter $$

CREATE TABLE `tblVendors` (
  `VendorID` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `VendorName` varchar(50) DEFAULT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`VendorID`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1$$

I tried the suggestion in this relevant post, but there were no results. This is a new database that hasn't actually been used yet; I've just filled it with fake data. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

There is a foreign key constraint on tblOrderItems that its ItemID needs to reference an ItemID that already exists in tblCatalogItems.

CONSTRAINT `ItemID` FOREIGN KEY (`ItemID`) REFERENCES `tblCatalogItems` (`ItemID`),

The message only means that you're trying to update tblOrderItems to reference the item in tblCatalogItems with ItemID= 0004, but that item does not exist.

Since ItemID is a varchar, you probably want to quote the 0004 or it may be converted to an int 4 before conversion to varchar. That may be your problem if the row with ItemID = 0004 actually exists.

UPDATE tblOrderItems SET `ItemID` = '0004' WHERE `OrderNum`= 203 AND `OrderItemID` = 26