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ORA-02266: Unique/primary keys in table referenced by enabled foreign keys

What it means

TRUNCATE on a parent table with enabled foreign keys pointing to it.

How to fix it

Disable the child foreign keys, truncate, then enable them; or DELETE; or (12c+) TRUNCATE ... CASCADE with ON DELETE CASCADE keys.

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Updated 2026-11-12.