Triggering mysql delete in another table? - sql

Question

I have 3 tables in my database:
| systems |
|-------------|
| system_id |
|-------------|
| systems_maintenances |
|-------------------------|
| systems_maintenances_id|
| system_id |
| maintenance_id |
|-------------------------|
| maintenances |
|-------------------------|
| maintenance_id |
|-------------------------|
I'd like that when I delete a system, the maintenance being deleted too.
For the moment it only deletes in the systems_maintenances table.
I think a trigger is the best (and only?) way to do that.
I created this one:
CREATE TRIGGER `deleteMaintenance` BEFORE DELETE ON `systems`
FOR EACH ROW BEGIN
DELETE FROM maintenances
WHERE maintenance_id = systems_maintenances.maintenance_id;
END
The problem is I get the error:
DELETE FROM SNMProject.systems WHERE systems.system_id =16
MySQL a répondu:
#1054 - Unknown column 'systems_maintenances.maintenance_id' in 'where clause
How to solve my problem?
I don't know if it can help but I have this too for the systems_maintenances table:
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Answer 1

In a trigger, you don't refer to the table name of the table being affected. Instead, you refer to a proxie for it. That proxie depends on the database. In MySQL, it is new and old.
I suspect that you want something like this:
CREATE TRIGGER `deleteMaintenance` BEFORE DELETE ON `systems` FOR EACH ROW BEGIN
DELETE FROM maintenances m
WHERE maintenance_id IN (SELECT maintenance_id
FROM systems_maintenances sm
WHERE systems_maintenances.system_id = old.system_id
)
END;
There are other ways to express this logic, but this gives a good idea of the structure.
You can do essentially the same thing using cascading deletes, if you prefer. That way, you don't have to write triggers and can put the logic in the create table statement.