Using the new referential integrity constraints that will be made available, will it allow us to manually define the relationships between entities even if there is no true foreign key constraints setup in the database?
Lets say we deleted the FK_Orders_Customers in Northwind between orders and customers.
Or is this ability available now?
Thank for your time.
Two ways to do this... Creating the constraints when creating the data model OR using SQL to use the 'reference' constraint. Does 2005 provide any other automated method of creating the Primary Key - to Foreign key constraints without writing the SQL to do this?
Thx
Question:
What is used to enforce referential integrity ?
Answer: Triggers; Foriegn Keys.
what is Foreign Keys ?
How do you enforce referential integrity in SQL between tables?
Thanks.
I used to work with little databases and throw everything into a table with no relation, and modify them all individually. Now I've learned about referential integrity, makes things a lot easier.
My question is, now what? Say I have a Customers table and an Orders table (to keep it simple). If custID is the primary key in customers, foreign key in orders, then if I want to insert into Orders, I need the custID. So those kinds of things I need to keep stored in a session state and insert them like that, correct?
Hi guys,
Is there a way of finding the foreign keys for a table and therefore determine weather any referential integrity rules would be broken if a record was deleted?
For example. You have an author you want to delete, but that author has books. You call a procedure to delete the author. The stored procedure checks the foriegn keys, checks the tables and determines what is in them and if any tables have records that would be "orphaned" you return an error reporting what tables have the "would be orphaned" data in them.
It need to be fairly generic int he manner that it checks the foreign keys and the sub table data.
This is on behalf of a guy at work so "requirements" may change. ;)
Anyone got some ideas??
Cheers,
Shaun
hi guys,
i was asked to drop some tables...but before dropping i was asked to check for referential integrity..
so where and how can i check this referential integrity????
Hihow to set the referential integrity between 2 tables using enterprisemanager (microsoft SQL SERVER).. i tried and the tab doesn't allow meto choose. pls.help.thankssree--chavasreedharMessage posted via http://www.exforsys.com for all your training needs.
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Hi,
I need to write a referential integrity trigger. I have two tables called Table1 and Table2. In both the tables i have common column called FieldA.
Now i need to write a trigger, whenever i updates Table1 this trigger automatically needs to update a FieldA in Table2.
Can anyone give me Code or suggestions , how to write this trigger. I am new to triggers.
Thank you!
---Ram
Hi,
I need to write a referential integrity trigger. I have two tables called Table1 and Table2. In both the tables i have common column called FieldA.
Now i need to write a trigger, whenever i updates Table1 this trigger automatically needs to update a FieldA in Table2.
Can anyone give me Code or suggestions , how to write this trigger. I am new to triggers.
Thank you!
I know how to write a normal insert , update, delete triggers and using help from books online.. SO pls do it in useful.
---Ram
Hi All,
I am inserting into a table that hold several foreign keys from several tables.
I'm performing this via a client (VB) and I only how to capture the error, but unable to determine which column/field is the one that violates referential integrity.
Any one can shed some light here? Many thanks!
Cyherus
I have a lookup table called States, I have multiple other tables that use this lookup table, but I can only relate to one other table. My question is if I change a state name how do I enforce that change to the other tables that CANT be related? I know it is a design flaw and need some kind of joining table. I am having difficulty understanding and incorporating first normal form in my database. Here is what i have so far.
Example:
Table 1
========|============|=============|========|
CustomerID BillingAddressID ShippingAddressID OtherFields
========|============|=============|========|
Table 2
===========|======|========|
BillingAddressID StateID OtherFields
===========|======|========|
Table 3
=============|======|========|
ShippingAddressID StateID OtherFields
=============|======|========|
Table 4
======|====|
StateID Name
======|====|
How do I relate table 4 with table 2 & 3 for referential integrity? Or create a joiner table?
hi there!
im having problems deleting rows in a reference table. is there any tools which tables to delete first before deleting the rows in the table which contains the primary key?
i have a lot of tables let say over 300 so its hard for me to guess which comes first... what should i keep in mind deleting rows with a referential integrity?
thank...
Hello Everyone.
I'm trying to set a procedural referential integrity on a table, files, which references to table users (a file is created by a user but one user can have more than one file).
Here, given that I can't create a referential integrity ON DELETE SET NULL (the reason il long to explain so just don't care about it), I would like to emulate the RI with a trigger.
On deleting a user the files associated to him have their IDUser set to null.
I have a problem, this is the trigger:
CREATE TRIGGER PRI_FilesOnUsers
ON Files
INSTEAD OF DELETE
AS
-- When a user is deleted the files must have no user associated, set IDUser to null
UPDATE Files
SET IDUser = NULL
WHERE IDUser = ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????
GO
WELL what do I heve to put there, how can i retrieve the values of the fields of the record that the user tried to delete?????Help me thanks
Hi,
How could I define referential integrity using FK constraint which allow me to have empty string/ZERO number instead of NULL value ?
Thank you
I'm designing a database to store information about jobs that are in progress at a property. More than one job can be in progress at a property at one time and each different kind of job can contain different data, although they all share some common fields such as StartDate.
So I have a table that stores the property details PropertyDetails:
*ID
PropertyAddress
PropertyPostCode
Then I have a table that stores all of the jobs' shared details:
*PropertyID
*JobID - These three make up a compound primary key
*JobType
StartDate
EndDate
Then I have individual tables for each of the Jobs, for example BuildingWork:
*JobID
BuildingContractor
InsuranceCompany
Which works great, and enables me to query all basic job details from one table (JobDetails) rather than multiple tables for every job type.
BUT: I don't know how to enforce the referential integrity of the database. Obviously I can use a constraint to cascade deletes from the PropertyDetails table to the JobDetails table through the PropertyID, but there doesn't appear to then cascade the deletes from the JobDetails table to the individual Job tables as JobDetails has no idea what tables are there.
If I store the relevant individual table name as the JobType in the JobDetails table, could I use a trigger to somehow delete the related record from that table?
Littlecharva
Is there a way to disable referential integrity on all destination tables for an import?
Thanks.
Can someone give me an example on how to enforce cross-database referential integrity with triggers in SQL Server 2000?
Thanks,
Joel
In SQL Server 2012 (also 2005 and 2008), can you have Referential Integrity across a Database? Across a Schema?
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View 6 Replies View RelatedI am having great difficulty with cascading deletes, delete triggers and referential integrity.
The database is in First Normal Form.
I have some tables that are child tables with two foreign keyes to two different parent tables, for example:
Table A
/
Table B Table C
/
Table D
So if I try to turn on cascading deletes for A/B, A/C, B/D and C/D relationships, I get an error that I cannot have cascading delete because it would create multiple cascade paths. I do understand why this is happening. If I delete a row in Table A, I want it to delete child rows in Table B and table C, and then child rows in table D as well. But if I delete a row in Table C, I want it to delete child rows in Table D, and if I delete a row in Table B, I want it to also delete child rows in Table D.
SQL sees this as cyclical, because if I delete a row in table A, both table B and table C would try to delete their child rows in table D.
Ok, so I thought, no biggie, I'll just use delete triggers. So I created delete triggers that will delete child rows in table B and table C when deleting a row in table A. Then I created triggers in both Table B and Table C that would delete child rows in Table D.
When I try to delete a row in table A, B or C, I get the error "Delete Statement Conflicted with COLUMN REFERENCE". This does not make sense to me, can anyone explain? I have a trigger in place that should be deleting the child rows before it attempts to delete the parent row...isn't that the whole point of delete triggers?????
This is an example of my delete trigger:
CREATE TRIGGER [DeleteA] ON A
FOR DELETE
AS
Delete from B where MeetingID = ID;
Delete from C where MeetingID = ID;
And then Table B and C both have delete triggers to delete child rows in table D. But it never gets to that point, none of the triggers execute because the above error happens first.
So if I then go into the relationships, and deselect the option for "Enforce relationship for INSERTs and UPDATEs" these triggers all work just fine. Only problem is that now I have no referential integrity and I can simply create unrestrained child rows that do not reference actual foreign keys in the parent table.
So the question is, how do I maintain referential integrity and also have the database delete child rows, keeping in mind that the cascading deletes will not work because of the multiple cascade paths (which are certainly required).
Hope this makes sense...
Thanks,
Josh
Hello,
I am fairly new to SQL, so I have a few questions that may sound odd. First of all, I am trying to restrict users to putting in a three character code as an id item, or their team abbreviation. Here is the table definition:
CREATE TABLE TEAMS{
city varchar(20) NOT NULL,
name varchar(20) NOT NULL,
id varchar(3) NOT NULL};
Here is my code for adding the constraint
ALTER TABLE TEAMS
ADD CONSTRAINT Chk_id CHECK (id = `[A-Z][A-Z][A-Z]`);
Here is the error that I get when trying to execute this statement:
Msg 547, Level 16, State 0, Line 1
ALTER TABLE statement conflicted with COLUMN CHECK constraint 'Chk_id'. The conflict occurred in database 'statbookdb', table 'cabateams', column 'id'.
I am using SQL 2005 EM if this makes any difference.
My other question is in regards to once the constraints have been put in. Is there a way to make SQL throw a message out when a user violates a constraint? Right now, I have a numerical constraint in and whenever I violate it, all that happens is a "This page cannot be displayed" error. It doesn't make sense if you can only do this on the front end, as I don't see the point in enforcing it on the backend if there is no way to notify the user.
Thank you all in advance!
im having a bit of a problem displaying the integrity constraints i have set. I need to show the table name, contraint name and contraint type, but i cant find out how to do this anywhere.
can anyone help?
thanks
Hi,
We will be using SQL Compact Edition in our application. We are doing some tests to make sure that SQL Compact is suitable for our requirments.
Our problem is with Primary keys and how to maintain data integrity since we will have 100+ clients inserting, updating, and synchronizing with SQL Server.
Can we control Identity range?
Shall we use UniqueIdentifires insted of int?
How can we detect errors at the client side? (For example, if two clients are trying to synchronize 2 columns with the same primary key value)
We will use Merge replication.
Thank you
I have created a simple package to load an Excel Spreadsheet into a SQL Server table. There is a one to one relationship between the columns in the .xls file and the columns in the DB record. I am getting integrity constraint errors when I try to load all numeric data from the spreadsheet (defined as Category General in excel, not defined as numeric but consisting of all numeric characters) into a column defined as (nvarchar(20), not null) in SQL Server Management Studio. There are no constraints on the column.
I have been able to temporarily bypass the offending rows, but I do need to load them into SQL Server. The problem column has a mixture of data, two examples would be: N255, 168050. It's the 168050 value that's causing the Task to bomb. How can I get this loaded into my table ?
I am running the package from within MS Visual Studio 2005 Version 8, Excel is version 2003 (11.8120.8122) SP2
Thanks,
Chris
I am new to MS SQL2005 but I have started working with it and found a difference between what MS Access and MS SQL will allow. I have a large DB with many tables but my problem relates to one specific issue. I have a table named tblAreaCodes which holds all area codes for the US. I have another table named tblSupplier where there are multiple colums such as name address etc. and three columns named phac, ph2ac, orderac, and faxac. All are the same type (Int) as is the Primary key in the tblAreaCode table. I have linked each of the columns in the tblSupplier table back to the primary in the tblAreaCode table. All is fine except I can not set the relationship to cascade update or delete. I am unsure what this means or how to proceed since this works and is allowed in MS Access. Any help and or direction would be greatly appreciated.
LKP
I am using SQL server 2000. I have a parent table 'MimeTypes' with primary key 'mimetype'. This is referenced as foreign key in table 'AssetTypes' as column 'BaseMimeType'.
The referential constraint is simple :
alter table AssetTypes
add constraint FK_ASSETTYPES_REF_BASEMIMETYPE foreign key (BaseMimeType)
references MimeTypes (MimeType) on update no action on delete no action;
I have FOR Update trigger on parent table ('MimeTypes') which is as follows:
CREATE TRIGGER trg_MimeTypes_update ON MimeTypes FOR UPDATE
AS
IF UPDATE(MimeType)
BEGIN
UPDATE AssetTypes
SET BaseMimeType = (select MimeType from inserted)
FROM AssetTypes as A
JOIN deleted as d on A.BaseMimeType = d.MimeType
END;
********
The problem is simple. I want to execute a update query on parent table ('MimeTypes') which modifies 'mimetype' value referenced by child. I dont want to include cascade option in constraint.
When such query is executed error comes as : UPDATE statement conflicted with COLUMN REFERENCE constraint 'FK_ASSETTYPES_REF_BASEMIMETYPE'. The conflict occurred in database 'default.db', table 'AssetTypes', column 'BaseMimeType'.
*****
Is there any way to do this?
I'm trying out this database layout under MS SQL (de), with primary multicolomn key, but ....
Let's say table A, has primary KEY on the field PK_A
Let's say table B, has primary KEY on the field PK_B
Now table C, has fields ID_A and ID_B, defined as multicolomn primary key, referencing obviuosly to the PK_A and PK_B values.
NOW THE PROBLEM !! :(
Let present you table D , with his beautiful field ID_C. :)
How can I succed in referencing with the ID_C field the primary multicolomn key of table C ??
I' designing the whole thing with access97+mde, but dragging the PK key of table C (ID_A & ID_B) over the table D (ID_C) doesn't work !!
Any help ??
Thanks in advance !!
H2O
Hi, I tried to delete a record in tblA which has an ID in tblB, i got error msg saying referential problem, please tell me what should i do? thanks.
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