Can't Drop foreign key in MySQL

Question

I have had a 1 to many relationship between course and instructor, which I wanted to drop. When I tried to drop the instructorID in course table it told me that. I couldn\'t

Answer 1

After you run SHOW CREATE table course; you should find the fk symbol which is commonly like the one bellow:

(course_ibfk_1) 

it may differ according to your mysql version you are using then drop the foreign key using the fk symbol as follow :

alter table course drop foreign key course_ibfk_1;