MySQL - Cannot add or update a child row: a foreign key constraint fails

Question

This seems to be a common error, but for the life of me I can\'t figure this out.

I have a set of InnoDB user tables in MySQL that are tied together via foreign key;

Answer 1

I had the same problem but when I looked closely I found that, it was causing because I was trying to put the foreign key values into the tables before that key was assigned its primary key value. e.g. I had two tables "customers" and "films", "cust_id" and "film_id" were primary key respectively. "customer" had one-to-many relation with "films" so I had "cust_id" as foreign key in "films" tables. But I was trying to put values to "films" table first, so I got that problem.