How to reject delete statement in before delete trigger?

Question

How to reject delete statement in before delete trigger (mysql) ?

Sample use case : I have a record with specified id that I w

Answer 1

You could create a table that uses a foreign key constrait referencing your ID column (provided that is the primary key of your table). The insert a row into that "child" table that references ID = 0 and remove all update/delete privileges for your user from that table.

Now if someone tries to delete the row with ID = 0 in the "parent" table that will fail due to an existing child row in the other table.

Answer 2

Look here, same thing but with an insert-trigger: How to abort INSERT operation in MySql trigger?