Setting Up Tables And Relationships?
Mar 12, 2014
I am creating a small piece of software which handles a pre-advice data file, several scanner inputting weights and a supplier weight report.
The pre-advice contains a list of barcodes and details revolving around that barcode, each barcode will be scanned and a weight will be obtained, this will be place in the DB.
Currently my tables can be summarized like this.
Pre-Advice Table
Barcode
Lots of other info…
Scanners Table
Barcode
Date
Time
Weight
Which device input this information
Suppliers Weight Table
Barcode
Date
Time
Weight
Here is the process(es):
1.Pre-advice table populated.
2.When the barcode is scanned and a weight is obtained, a record will be added to the scanners table and this becomes the ‘active’ weight.If there is already an ‘active’ weight against this barcode the user will be asked if they wish to use the ‘active’ weight already in the system or update the ‘active’ weight to the weight they have entered.
3.Then when the supplier weight report is inputted into its table, should the ‘active’ weight be less than the supplier weight, the supplier weight becomes the ‘active’ weight.
At any given time a user can pull a report based on information in the Pre-Advice table, which will need to include the ‘active’ weight for that barcode’s record.
Additionally, no weights should be deleted, I need a fully traceable log of who, what, where & when. I will need to pull reports on the trials of scans so it really is a must to keep these.
Furthermore, if a scanner was to scan the same barcode after the Suppliers weight had been input and the user chooses to replace the weight then, the scanners weight should become the new ‘active’ weight.
I believe I will need to modify my tables to accommodate my needs, however I am not sure exactly what or how to set up what I need.I understand I will need some type of relationship between all of the tables to be able to pull the report on the Pre-Advice table, but I am lost.
how I will need to set up my tables/relationships in order to achieve my requirements?
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Apr 12, 2008
I working a tutorial where I will learn a lot of new stuff, LINQ being one of them. As a part of this tutorial, there are four tables and foreign keys. My db skills were limited to simple tables and i've nevr done anything where I related tables before. I'm a bit confused about foreign keys and how to set them up. I think I'm setting up right, but I have a doubt. I have a couple of screen caps to show you what where my doubt comes from at:
http://www.noelakins.com/keys.htmlWhat is causing my confusion is that the connecting lines between the Albums and Events table diagrams in my setup seems to point back to the Photos table, and the Photos table seems to point to the Tags table. From the tutorial, the connecting lines seem to be pointing the other direction. Am I setting up the key right, or do I have them backwards? I'm setting out to learn a lot of stuff in this tutorial, so when I mess it up, i would like to know that it isn't because the foreign keys are wrong.EDIT:After doing some googling and some reading and watching, I'm a little less confused about how to set up foreign keys, at least how to do it in VWD. My problem now seems to be understanding the relationships. In the tutorial example, the Tags table has a FK on the PhotoID field, which matches the primary key (PhotoID) in the Photos table. Now, does this mean that the Tags table is the parent table and the Photos table the child? If this is true, then the other two tables must be child tables of the Photos table. At least that how I think this should work. The issue that I'm having with this is trying to understand how a cascade delete would work. Is the foreign key relationship a one way or both way relationship? For example, if I have made a foreign key on the AlbumID field of the Photos table, where the primary key table is Albums, PK is AlbumID and the foreign key table is Photos, then, if I do a cascade delete of a particular photo, does it delete the album too? That wouldn't make sense. Foreign keys and cascade deletes must be one way, right? Thanks
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Hi,
I received the error below upon saving when I was trying to create a foreign key in a table using relationships in "table designer" of sql server 2005 management studio. This process has been successful for other tables. What might be the problem?
Thanks
Code Snippet
- Unable to create relationship 'FK_SAMPLE_GRID'.
The ALTER TABLE statement conflicted with the FOREIGN KEY constraint "FK_SAMPLE_GRID". The conflict occurred in database "acquire", table "dbo.GRID", column 'GRIDNAME'.
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Hi,
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These methods work well when there are no PK or FK relationships, i.e. the target tables are stand alone.
However when I use a schema that has relationships I need to be able to import and be able to return the key then use this key to import into another table to ensure the FK relationship and so on.....
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here is my problem: I'm desigining a simple "Downloads" page in asp.net, and I have two tables set up. One is Downloads and the other is DownloadCategories. here is a simplified layout of the tables:
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Description
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Description
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