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<p>
In general, you
<span>will</span>
not modify a secondary database directly. In
order to modify a secondary database, you should modify the primary
database and simply allow DB to manage the secondary modifications for you.
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<p>
However, as a convenience, you can delete
<tt class="classname">SecondaryDatabase</tt>
records directly. Doing so causes the associated primary key/data pair to be deleted.
This in turn causes DB to delete all
<tt class="classname">SecondaryDatabase</tt>
records that reference the primary record.
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You can use the
<tt class="methodname">SecondaryDatabase.delete()</tt>
method to delete a secondary database record.
<span>Note that if your
<tt class="classname">SecondaryDatabase</tt>
contains duplicate records, then deleting a record from the set of
duplicates causes all of the duplicates to be deleted as well.
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<span><tt class="methodname">SecondaryDatabase.delete()</tt> causes the
previously described delete operations to occur
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<p>For example:</p>
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<pre class="programlisting">package db.GettingStarted;
import com.sleepycat.db.DatabaseEntry;
import com.sleepycat.db.DatabaseException;
import com.sleepycat.db.OperationStatus;
import com.sleepycat.db.SecondaryDatabase;
...
try {
SecondaryDatabase mySecondaryDatabase = null;
// Omitting all database opens
...
String searchName = "John Doe";
DatabaseEntry searchKey =
new DatabaseEntry(searchName.getBytes("UTF-8"));
// Delete the first secondary record that uses "John Doe" as
// a key. This causes the primary record referenced by this secondary
// record to be deleted.
OperationStatus retVal = mySecondaryDatabase.delete(null, searchKey);
} catch (Exception e) {
// Exception handling goes here
}</pre>
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