Database Diagrams: FOREIGN KEY Constraint Fell Off; Can't Drop/recreate It...
Mar 25, 2006
Hello,
I have two tables Person & Location where Location has a primary key LocationId and Person has a foreign key LocationId.
Sometime ago I used the Database Diagrams visual tool of SQL Server Management Studio Express to create the foreign key relationship between the two tables - i.e. "visually" (drawing a line between the PK & FK LocationId elements of both tables).
Time has passed and I recently noticed that, upon retrieving my saved diagram, the foreign key relationship had "fallen off" (i.e. the many-to-one line was no longer showing in the diagram).
After recreating the relationship (redrawing the line) I find that I get an error message when I try to save the diagram:
Post-Save Notifications
[!] Errors were encountered during the save process. Some database objects were not saved.
'Location' table saved successfully
'Person' table
- Unable to create relationship 'FK_Person_Location'.
The ALTER TABLE statement conflicted with the FOREIGN KEY constraint "FK_Person_Location". The conflict occurred in database "mydb", table "dbo.Location", column 'LocationId'.
When I go back to the object explorer and view the dependencies for the two tables, there is no dependency (between these two tables) revealed. When I try to create the foreign key constraint manually (T-SQL) it again says can't add the constraint. It comes up with an error as follows:
ALTER TABLE Person
ADD FOREIGN KEY (LocationId) REFERENCES Location (LocationId)
Msg 547, Level 16, State 0, Line 2
The ALTER TABLE statement conflicted with the FOREIGN KEY constraint "FK__Person__LocationId__793DFFAF". The conflict occurred in database "mydb", table "dbo.Location", column 'LocationId'.
(Note: Each time I do this, the 8 hexadecimal character suffix changes.)
When I try to drop the foreign key:
alter table Person
drop constraint FK__Person__LocationId
it comes back with the error:
Msg 3728, Level 16, State 1, Line 2
'FK__Person__LocationId' is not a constraint.
Msg 3727, Level 16, State 0, Line 2
Could not drop constraint. See previous errors.
So it seems that there's some kind of goof up here. Can anybody shed light on this / tell me how to fix it?
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Also,
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2. how to stop it happening again
3. how to fix it without resorting to drop/recreate (I can't exactly write a batch script to recreate all our sps every so often)
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Go
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The command(s) completed successfully.
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EXEC sp_pkeys @table_name = 'tblDRG'
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TABLE_QUALIFIERTABLE_OWNERTABLE_NAMECOLUMN_NAMEKEY_SEQPK_NAME
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Server: Msg 3728, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
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ive a foreign key reference on the table APPLICANT MASTER
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Code Block
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Hi there
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CONSTRAINT [FK_ITEMS__ITEM_CATEGORIES] FOREIGN KEY
(
[ITC_ID]
) REFERENCES [dbo].[ITEM_CATEGORIES] (
[ITC_ID]
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CONSTRAINT [FK_ITEMS__ITEM_TYPES] FOREIGN KEY
(
[ITY_ID]
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[ITY_ID]
) ON UPDATE CASCADE NOT FOR REPLICATION
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Introducing FOREIGN KEY constraint 'FK_ITEMS__ITEM_CATEGORIES' on table 'ITEMS' may cause cycles or multiple cascade paths. Specify ON DELETE NO ACTION or ON UPDATE NO ACTION, or modify other FOREIGN KEY constraints.
Server: Msg 1750, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
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