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Is there a way to know that a record is being used by another record in the database? Using deleting as an example: When I create an SQL statement trying to delete a group in dbo.group I get this error: <blockquote> The DELETE statement conflicted with the REFERENCE constraint "FK_MyTable". The conflict occurred in database "MyDB", table "dbo.User", column 'Group_ID'. </blockquote> Since I have a user that has a foreign key relationship to the group I am not able to delete the group. I want to be able to know if the record is linked to other records before I run the delete statement. Is there a way to do that? Basically I want to show the user that the record that they are viewing is undeleable. I do not want to try to delete the record. 
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