Delete a child and a parent row with one SQL script

Question

Instead of deleting the child row and then writing another sql statement to delete the parent row I wanted to use one statement which will do both. FYI: we use Oracle databa

Answer 1

Another (boring way, we have this in a database which, for unknown reason, don't use foreign keys as constraints - yes yes) to do this would be to create a trigger after (or before) delete.

You'll have to write another delete query, but just in the trigger.

But if you can't put delete cascade, I'm not sure you can add triggers...