格式错误mysql_mysql外键约束格式错误

I have two tables, table1 is the parent table with a column ID and table2 with a column IDFromTable1 (not the actual name) when I put a FK on IDFromTable1 to ID in table1 I get the error Foreign key constraint is incorrectly formed error. I would like to delete table 2 record if table1 record gets deleted. Thanks for any help

ALTER TABLE `table2`

ADD CONSTRAINT `FK1`

FOREIGN KEY (`IDFromTable1`) REFERENCES `table1` (`ID`)

ON UPDATE CASCADE

ON DELETE CASCADE;

Let me know if any other information is needed. I am new to mysql

解决方案

I ran into this same problem with HeidiSQL. The error you receive is very cryptic. My problem ended up being that the foreign key column and the referencing column were not of the same type or length.

The foreign key column was SMALLINT(5) UNSIGNED and the referenced column was INT(10) UNSIGNED. Once I made them both the same exact type, the foreign key creation worked perfectly.