A quick thanks to anyone taking a look!
I have dev, stage and prod servers.
I created my database on dev, then did a mysqldump and installed the same database on stage and prod.
stage and prod are identical hardware, and os, which is latest LAMP stack.
When I insert a child row on prod, I get an error, yet it works on my dev and stage machines. That is weird. So ignoring that, here is my simple data (2 tables) and my error:
CREATE TABLE `Customer` (
`Customer_Id` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`AccessLevel_Id` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL,
`UserId` varchar(50) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
`FirstName` varchar(50) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
`LastName` varchar(50) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
`Phone` varchar(20) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
`Email` varchar(100) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
`Passwd` tinytext COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
`HearAbout` varchar(50) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci DEFAULT NULL,
`Active` tinyint(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT '1',
`Created` datetime NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`Customer_Id`),
UNIQUE KEY `UserId` (`UserId`),
KEY `idxEmail` (`Email`),
KEY `R8` (`AccessLevel_Id`),
CONSTRAINT `R8` FOREIGN KEY (`AccessLevel_Id`) REFERENCES `accesslevel` (`AccessLevel_Id`) ON DELETE NO ACTION ON UPDATE NO ACTION
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=6 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_unicode_ci |
CREATE TABLE `Recipient` (
`Recipient_Id` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`Customer_Id` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL,
`FirstName` varchar(50) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci DEFAULT NULL,
`LastName` varchar(50) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci DEFAULT NULL,
`NickName` varchar(50) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci DEFAULT NULL,
`LastUsed` datetime DEFAULT NULL,
`Active` tinyint(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT '1',
`Created` datetime NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`Recipient_Id`),
KEY `R14` (`Customer_Id`),
CONSTRAINT `R14` FOREIGN KEY (`Customer_Id`) REFERENCES `customer` (`Customer_Id`) ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=10 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_unicode_ci |
Here is the applicable id.
mysql> select * from Customer where Customer_Id=1;
+-------------+----------------+--------+-----------+----------+----------------+---------------------+------------------------------------+----------------+--------+---------------------+
| Customer_Id | AccessLevel_Id | UserId | FirstName | LastName | Phone | Email | Passwd | HearAbout | Active | Created |
+-------------+----------------+--------+-----------+----------+----------------+---------------------+------------------------------------+----------------+--------+---------------------+
| 1 | 3 | userid | Heywood | Jablome | (313) 248-1234 | heywood@jablome.com | $jxAB3sfe9CEixrNL3vKH6Jr7z. | Other | 1 | 2013-01-12 19:23:27 |
+-------------+----------------+--------+-----------+----------+----------------+---------------------+------------------------------------+----------------+--------+---------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
Here is the constraint error: Can someone wiser than me, enlighten me? I'd really like to know what is causing this!!
mysql> INSERT INTO `Recipient` (`Customer_Id`, `NickName`, `FirstName`, `LastName`, `Created`) VALUES ('1', 'Moe', 'Moe', 'Howard', '2013-02-01 15:25:19');
ERROR 1452 (23000): Cannot add or update a child row: a foreign key constraint fails (`db1`.`Recipient`, CONSTRAINT `R14` FOREIGN KEY (`Customer_Id`) REFERENCES `customer` (`Customer_Id`) ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE)
Here is the result of show innodb status \G
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LATEST FOREIGN KEY ERROR
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130201 16:56:25 Transaction:
TRANSACTION 0 3429, ACTIVE 0 sec, process no 8699, OS thread id 3245587822336 inserting, thread declared inside InnoDB 500
mysql tables in use 1, locked 1
1 lock struct(s), heap size 368, 0 row lock(s), undo log entries 1
MySQL thread id 309, query id 97882 localhost root update
INSERT INTO `Recipient` (`Customer_Id`, `NickName`, `FirstName`, `LastName`, `Created`) VALUES ('1', 'Moe', 'Moe', 'Howard', '2013-02-01 15:25:19')
Foreign key constraint fails for table `db1`.`Recipient`:
,
CONSTRAINT `R14` FOREIGN KEY (`Customer_Id`) REFERENCES `customer` (`Customer_Id`) ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE
Trying to add to index `R14` tuple:
DATA TUPLE: 2 fields;
0: len 4; hex 00000001; asc ;; 1: len 4; hex 0000000a; asc ;;
But the parent table `db1`.`customer`
or its .ibd file does not currently exist!