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

the reason why you cannot drop InstructorID is because you need to use the name of the constraint of the Foreign key . KevDev specified that you must run 'SHOW CREATE TABLE course' to find the constraint name. after doing so , you can delete the foreign key. BUT wait theres more, the 'key' still stays behind which must get deleted. You can run 'SHOW CREATE TABLE' course to check that the key is still behind. once checking that it is still there then perform what Bobby advised. 'Alter table drop key' in doing so you have fully removed the the foreign key