how to temporally disable foreign key constraint check

Good morning,


Is there a way to temporally disabled foreign key constraints something 
like

SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0

When population is done, will set FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=1

Thanks a lot!
Emi

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