I would like my schema to delete rows automatically after a certain number of days.
Therefore, I was planning to use this statement for example:
ALTER TABLE MY_TABLE USING TTL 5 days
However, I'm unable to find specifics in the TTL documentation about how FK relationships are handled in this scenario.
Will TTL automatically ignore these FK relationships when it reaches that date and expire these rows anyway?
(OR)
Will TTL fail, as a delete would fail, because these FK relationships exist and need to be removed first?
There is no USING TTL clause in Oracle Database, so I'm not sure what you're referring to!
If you want to remove data older than N days/weeks/months/... you'll need to write a process to do this.
Doing this respects foreign keys, so you must first remove the child rows.
You can have the database do this automatically by declaring the foreign keys as ON DELETE CASCADE or ON DELETE SET NULL. These options remove the child rows or set the FK columns in child tables to null respectively. Take care doing this; it makes it easy to accidentally remove/nullify large numbers of rows!