Test cascade delete behavior
Hard120 pts~45 min
- ON DELETE CASCADE
- Foreign keys
- Orphan checks
Practice app · Acme Commerce DB
A real SQL database (SQLite engine) seeded with an e-commerce and HR dataset, with schema browser and query runner.
Your starter code already declares TEST_URL — never hardcode a host.
Objective
Verify that deleting an order cascades to its order_items, and that orders with payments are protected.
Your task
- 1Delete the lowest-id cancelled order: DELETE FROM orders WHERE id = (SELECT MIN(id) FROM orders WHERE status = 'cancelled').
- 2Confirm its order_items disappeared with it (ON DELETE CASCADE).
- 3Try to delete the lowest-id delivered order; payments reference it without cascade, so it must fail.
- 4Verify no orphans: SELECT COUNT(*) AS orphan_items FROM order_items i LEFT JOIN orders o ON o.id = i.order_id WHERE o.id IS NULL returns 0.
Acceptance criteria
- Exactly one cancelled order and its items were deleted
- Deleting the delivered order fails with FOREIGN KEY constraint failed
- The last result set shows 0 orphaned order_items
Constraints
- Every run starts from a freshly seeded database, so your script must include its own setup statements.
- A failing statement is recorded and the script keeps running, so you can trigger an error and verify afterwards.
- Only the last result set of your script is compared, so finish with the verification query.
SQL (SQLite engine) · Database Testing · CRUD & data integrity