Disabling Constraint !

Question

Hi,
when I tried to execute the following code it gave me an error :
insert into cheap_products_view (
product_id,product_type_id,name,price
) values (
13,1,'Western front',13.50
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00001: unique constraint (STORE.PRODUCTS_PK) violated
and when I tried to drop the Constraint and using with or with out cascade after the drop constraint it gave me an error also :
SQL> alter table products
2 disable constraint products_pk ;
alter table products
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-02297: cannot disable constraint (STORE.PRODUCTS_PK) - dependencies exist
so please can any one help me with that !

Answer 1

insert into cheap_products_view (
product_id,product_type_id,name,price
) values (
13,1,'Western front',13.50
);I say, it is a bad approach to disable PK and FK and do some insertion like this. Mainly if your application is OLTP type and there is some purpose to data modeling and create relationship between entities. So not a good idea to violate business rules.
I can share idea, if you like, Update table cheap_products_view with those new values you want to insert for prodcut_id (13). As Product id (PK) = 13 , record is already there.
Like : (Not tested)
  UPDATE cheap_products_view SET product_type_id = 1 , name = 'Western front' , price = 13.50
  WHERE product_id = 13
/Thanks!