now, when in insert a row in "TV" the foreign key "IdCamera" will relate to a row in either "InfraredCamera" or in "DaylightCamera" depending on the "DeviceType" value.
in other words, if i insert a row with DeviceType=0, then IdCamera will have to point to a row in the "InfraredCamera" table. And if i insert a row with DeviceType=1, then IdCamera will have to point to a row in the "DaylightCamera" table.
so, my question is, how can i make the constraints relationship so that the idCamera relates to a row in DaylightCamera or in InfraredCamera depending on the value of DeviceType? should i make 2 foreign keys with allow null? or should i place both relationships to the same foreign key? im not sure what to do
Thanks guys for your help. it is really appreciated!
hi. How to update FormA table from customer table. Let say i wish to keep small number of fields from each table so i use foreign keys as reference. However i had a problem when i tried to save the relationships of both tables, i receive the error that FormA_id is not able to insert null into value. Cust_id(PK) is identify column, as well FormA_id(FK) and FormA_id(PK) too. For example, when i insert a record from customer table, it will automatically create id for FormA. Table structure. Customer cust_id(PK),name,age,formA_id(FK) Table structure, FormA formA_id(PK), info, date, How to solve ?
I am trying to query the database to get me the foreign key columns and the tables they belong to.I have: The name of the tableI need:The name of the column in the target tableThe name of the column in the referenced tableThe name of the referenced table Any help would be great, thanks
Hi, I don't know if this is possible, i believe not, so I'm here to ask the experts if is possible to have a foreign key constraint that references the key of one of two tables. Like this: I have 3 tables: TABLE X, TABLE A and TABLE B Is it possible to the FK on TABLE X refernce the PK of TABLE A OR TABLE B? If yes, how can I do this? If not, I need to have a fourth table, so TABLE X references TABLE A and TABLE Y references TABLE B. Thanks!
I have a setup with a bridge table. There are about 5 different tables on one side of the bridge (all with compatable PK columns) one of which is called 'mobilesub', and one on the other side called 'allcostcenters'. The bridge table is called 'subaccountcostcenter'.
I can enter data for mobilesub in the bridge table. But then when I try to enter the info into the bridge table for any of the other tables, such as localsub, there is a conflict like this:
INSERT statement conflicted with TABLE FOREIGN KEY constraint 'FK_subaccountcostcenter_mobilesub'. The conflict occurred in database 'test1', table 'mobilesub'. The statement has been terminated.
Is there some rule against using a bridge table that references several different tables, and I'm just not aware of it. Because I've done everything I can to make sure the info from the different tables don't conflict . . . The same error comes up if I do the localsub table first--in that case the foriegn key messing me up is FK_subaccountcostcenter_localsub. So it's not something with the individual tables.
I know altering the schema of system tables is a big no-no, but I was wondering if setting up a table that has foreign keys pointing to a system table is bad.
Basically what I'm refering to is in some cases I have CreationDate and CreatedBy fields in my tables that correspond to GETDATE() and USER_NAME() functions in insert statements....I want the CreatedBy field to be a valid SQL server DB username ... and not some unchecked string value (SYSNAME actually)
I was trying a joining example provided in my book in which customer is a table and person is another table. The query provided in the book is this... USE AdventureWorks2012;
GO SELECT c.CustomerID, c.PersonID, p.BusinessEntityID, p.LastName FROM Sales.Customer AS c INNER JOIN Person.Person AS p ON c.PersonID = p.BusinessEntityID;
This is the query that I did....
SELECT c.CustomerID,p.FirstName,p.MiddleName,p.LastName FROM Sales.Customer AS c INNER JOIN Person.Person AS p ON c.CustomerID=p.BusinessEntityID
ORDER BY p.BusinessEntityID;
Keys :-
Person Table [PK_Person_BusinessEntityID] [FK_Person_BusinessEntity_BusinessEntityID]
However,both of them gives a very different result set.But my question is why do we need to use the Customer.PersonID instead of Customer.CustomerID. Is it really important to use one primary key and one foreign,is there any specific reason why the book showed c.personId=p.BusinessEntityId.??
Hey everyone, I am beggining in SQL and the .NET framework and have been running into some problems trying to design a relational database. I am completely new to it so I bought a book that was recommended in this Forum called "Handbook of Relational Database Design" and it has been pretty usefull so far. RIght now I am trying to make the Logical Data Model before I make the Relational Data Model. The problem that I am having right now is creating a table that is a derivation from another table. For example, in the book they have a table called Property, and then two other tables called MountainProperty and BeachProperty. MountainProperty and BeachProperty are a type (relationship here) of a property. So basically Property will hold some data in a table, and then MountainProperty and BeachProperty will extend that property to contain more specific data. This is very similar to what I want to do. However I am having a problem understanding how an instance (or row) in Property, will have a link (foreign key) to a piece of data that is in Mountain or BeachProperty. I understand the foreign key in Mountain and BeachProperty and how they will link back to their "parent". But how will Property know its children, where is the link for that, how can one make a link to that. You could make a column with a foreign key, but which table would it point to, can one column point to mulitple tables? That doesn't make very much sense to me. Basically what I am trying to say is that a row in the Property table can be multiple types, and these types will store more additional data about that row. How can I link to that data from that row in the Table Property. I am terribly sorry if this is confusing or if it is so appartently easy for you, but this is the first time that I have ever tried to make a relational database and I am really struggling on seeing how to organize these tables properly. Thank yor for your time. Jeremy
I have a situation that I must resolve. I have a program being used by many but I had to create a new table to provide a new feature. The problem I have is this table must use the primary key from the parent table as its primary key, meaning when a user adds a new record to parent table, I need to instantly add the primary key to the child table. Now this was done in the program using sql statements, but I need to implement a trigger or such as to keep me from having to reinstall application on many computers.
basically person inserts new record, then I need to get the new primary ket and add insert it into the child tables. how can I do this with a trigger. I have tried to use an insert into statment with my trigger, but I can't seem to pass the parameters correctly.
CREATE Trigger dbo.Table_Borrower_Insert_Keys ON Table_Borrower AFTER INSERT AS begin declare @bid as int
@bid = select MAX(BorrowerID) FROM Table_SoldProgression
INSERT Table_SoldProgression(BorrowerID) values (@bid) end GO
another attempt
CREATE Trigger dbo.Table_Borrower_Insert_Keys ON Table_Borrower AFTER INSERT AS
I have 600 tables in my database, out of which 40 tables are look up value tables. I want generate truncate scripts which truncates all the tables in order of Parent child relationship excluding lookup tables. Is there any way to do this apart from figuring out Parent Child relationship and then writing the truncate statements for each of the table.
For example
EmployeeDetail table references Employee table DepartmentDetail table references Department table Department table references Employee table
Hi all, In my project i will have the data in a collection of objects, I need to update series of tables with foreign key relations Right now my code looks like this foreach(object obj in Objects){ int accountId=Account.Insert(obj.accountOpenDate,obj.accountName);//this will update the accounts table and returns account id which is a Identity column in Acccounts table int DebtId=Debt.Insert(accountd,obj.debtamount,obj.debtbalance); this will update the Debts table and returns DebtId ///series of tables like above but all the relevant data comes from obj and in the Insert Methods i am using stored procedures to Insert the data into table } The no of objects varies from 1000 to 1 milliion,, with this approach its taking more time to update all the data. Please let me know if any alternative procedure to handle this kind of scenario.
I want to create a table withmember id(primary key for Students,faculty and staff [Tables])and now i want to create issues[Tables] with foreign key as member idbut in references i could not able to pass on reference as orcondition for students, faculty and staff.Thank You,Chirag
I have 600 tables in my database, out of which 40 tables are look up value tables. I want generate truncate scripts which truncates all the tables in order of Parent child relationship excluding lookup tables. Is there any way to do this apart from figuring out Parent Child relationship and then writing the truncate statements for each of the table.
For example
EmployeeDetail table references Employee table DepartmentDetail table references Department table Department table references Employee table
I'm shredding the below xml into relational tables. Each element of the xml has it's own table and there is a foreign key to join the tables, you can see this in the below picture. The process I follow is each relational table I always bring the nesecary xml and store it in the table and when shredding I always look at the parent table.So for example when processing the seat table, I use seat xml from the parent route table, also taking the ROUTEID from the route table. The reason I do this is all about taking the id from the previous step to create the relationships between the tables. without taking the xml down to the tables?The problem with this approach is I have xml stored in most tables and the tables are becoming very large.
Is there anyway to get the order in which data to be import on to tables when they have primary and Foreign Key relations?
For ex:We have around 170 tables and when tries to insert data it will throw error stating table25 data should be inserted first when we insert data in table 25 it say 70 like that.
I have a new problem when I import data from an xml source file in two destination tables. The two tables are linked by a foreign key... for example :
table MOTHER (MOTHER_ID, MOTHER_NAME)
table CHILD (CHILD_ID, MOTHER_ID, MOTHER_NAME)
After a lot of transformations data are inserted into MOTHER table and I want to insert other fields of the data flow in CHILD table. To do this, I need the MOTHER_ID field that is auto incremented in MOTHER table.
My problem is to chain the insertion in CHILD table after the insertion in MOTHER table to be sure that the relative row in MOTHER table is really inserted. I haven't find any solution to chain another transformation task after my flow destination "Insert into MOTHER table".
The only solution I have found is to create a new flow control to insert data in CHILD table, using a lookup transformation task to bind with MOTHER table... But with this solution all my flow control transforms are made two times...
Is there a solution to chain two insertions with a foreign key constraint in a data flow?
datasource jdbc in UAT Server has been modified to use ms sql driver & point to the UAT sql server . I Really not understand what is exactly meaning of modified and pointing (but i know theory any application need to get access that should point to server )or otherwords we say application is pointig to database, to point one server to other what we do get that . could any one give detail idea really i am missing some basics drivers and application pointing . may i know any book or link to study more about this kind of sutuation
I am new to SQL and I am trying to have a column in my table that points to images I have stored in a directory on my system. I cannot seem to get it to work correctly and I am wondering if someone might be able to help. I want to use this image for each record with the other information on my windows form but I cannot seem to get the file pointer right. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
How do I "point" a set of stored procedures to operate on different linked servers?
In other words, I have the following linked servers:
DatabaseA DatabaseB DatabaseC DatabaseD ...and in the future, there may be added additional linked servers.
All the linked servers have identical schema, but they contain unique data--each linked server represents a company.
I have a database which will contain stored procedures which I will want to operate against these linked servers. How can I "redirect" my stored procedures to operate against a chosen linked server?
If these were not linked servers, but SQL Server databases, I'd be able to replicate the same stored procedures in each database. Then, when I called a stored procedure, it would act against the data in that database. But these aren't SQL Server databases, so that idea is out.
Unfortunately, the USE command cannot be used within a stored procedure, and even if you could, I can't get it to respond to a database name given as a variable. That idea is out.
The only alternative I have left is to use the string catenation facility of the EXECUTE command. Unfortunately, with 100s of complex queries, setting that up is going to be a nightmare.
I have a .ADP application (access 2000 front end, SQL Server 2000 back end) I basically want to create a new .ADP file and point it to a different SQL Server 2000 Database.
I've copied the current SQL Server DB and recreated it. Same for the .ADP file, but it is currently pointing to the old Db, where do I go to have it point to the new SQL Server DB?
I've started working at an organization that has a sql 2005 cluster with a named instances on it, lets call it Instance1. What they done is to create a dns alias for servername that is the same as the instance name, so when you connect to the sql server you connect "Instance1Instance1".
We want to move to SQL 2014 cluster with AlwaysOn Availability Groups doing the HA/DR, the question is if I create a listener name called "Listener1" is there a way to using DNS or anything else to point "Instance1Instance1" to "Listener1"
In our environment applications are using a DNS name which points to the physical server ip address. Now we are planning to move to 2014. We are planning to have servers in different subnets so we will be having two ip adresses for listener. How we can point the DNS to the listener ips? If failover happens can the DNS point to the exact ip address of the listener where it's primary node?
I am using a WMI Event Watcher task to watch for files dropped into a directory over a network drive.
It seems to work fine when it is pointed to a physical drive name, but not when I use a machine name.
I.e.
This works - SELECT * FROM __InstanceCreationEvent WITHIN 10 WHERE TargetInstance ISA "CIM_DirectoryContainsFile" and TargetInstance.GroupComponent= "Win32_Directory.Name="C:\\temp\\folder1\\folder2\folder3""
This fails - SELECT * FROM __InstanceCreationEvent WITHIN 10 WHERE TargetInstance ISA "CIM_DirectoryContainsFile" and TargetInstance.GroupComponent= "Win32_Directory.Name=\\\\machineName\\folder1\\folder2\\folder3"
The failing code does not throw any errors (i.e. SSIS thinks the WQL syntax is correct), but it doesn't pick up any dropped files.
Am I doing something incorrect with the syntax, or must I use a physically mapped drive letter?
How to "CREATE credentials pointing to SQL SERVER logins" and "creating proxys for SQL server agent pointing to SQL SERVER login.
As The SQL server login does not display in the CHECK NAMES list when we are trying to select the identity but All the other Windows logins display correctly in this list .
So using the SQLserver login fails to run a SQL server Job (which uses the credentials and proxies pionting to SQL server logins)
I use the following 3 sets of sql code in SQL Server Management Studio Express (SSMSE) to import the csv data/files to 3 dbo.Tables via CREATE TABLE & BUKL INSERT operations:
-- ImportCSVprojects.sql --
USE ChemDatabase
GO
CREATE TABLE Projects
(
ProjectID int,
ProjectName nvarchar(25),
LabName nvarchar(25)
);
BULK INSERT dbo.Projects
FROM 'c:myfileProjects.csv'
WITH
(
FIELDTERMINATOR = ',',
ROWTERMINATOR = ''
)
GO ======================================= -- ImportCSVsamples.sql --
USE ChemDatabase
GO
CREATE TABLE Samples
(
SampleID int,
SampleName nvarchar(25),
Matrix nvarchar(25),
SampleType nvarchar(25),
ChemGroup nvarchar(25),
ProjectID int
);
BULK INSERT dbo.Samples
FROM 'c:myfileSamples.csv'
WITH
(
FIELDTERMINATOR = ',',
ROWTERMINATOR = ''
)
GO ========================================= -- ImportCSVtestResult.sql --
USE ChemDatabase
GO
CREATE TABLE TestResults
(
AnalyteID int,
AnalyteName nvarchar(25),
Result decimal(9,3),
UnitForConc nvarchar(25),
SampleID int
);
BULK INSERT dbo.TestResults
FROM 'c:myfileLabTests.csv'
WITH
(
FIELDTERMINATOR = ',',
ROWTERMINATOR = ''
)
GO
======================================== The 3 csv files were successfully imported into the ChemDatabase of my SSMSE.
2 questions to ask: (1) How can I designate the Primary and Foreign Keys to these 3 dbo Tables? Should I do this "designate" thing after the 3 dbo Tables are done or during the "Importing" period? (2) How can I set up the relationships among these 3 dbo Tables?
