I have created tables in sql server CE and i am trying to add foreign key to table using alter table command from .net framework IDE with server explorer , but it is giving error that
alter table command is not supported. so how to add constraint
to existing table in sql server ce
I have a table tbl_rules. This table will define rules for each role. I have not yet defined the fields for the rules. But the table definition is as below:
Create table tbl_Rules
(
ID int identity(1,1) not null,
Role_ID int not null,
primary key (ID),
constraint fk_RoleName foreign key (Role_ID)
references tbl_Role(ID)
)
The table tbl_role has two columns as below:
ID RoleName
1 Manager
2 Analyst
3 Admin
So far so good. I created the tbl_rules.
But what i want to do is when I do select * from tbl_Rules, i want to show as below:
ID Role_ID
1 Manager
2 Admin
Instead it shows:
ID Role_ID
1 1
2 3
Is there a way to do this? The goal is to return the select * from tbl_Rules results to a gridview to enable adds and changes. I could do this by doing queries for each column, but I was hoping to make it easier. Not sure if this is even possible.
Hi,
We're having a few linked servers in our company. some tables in one of the linked servers include columns (better saying, foreign keys) of tables in another server. I wonder if there's a way to create a foreign key referencing one column in another server. That is, suppose there's Column A in table A in Server A which references Column B in table B in server B, is there a way to create column A as foreign key referencing column B?
Any idea is appreciated.
Hi,
We're having a few linked servers in our company. some tables in one of the linked servers include columns (better saying, foreign keys) of tables in another server. I wonder if there's a way to create a foreign key referencing one columns in another server. That is, suppose there's Column A in table A in Server A which references Column B in table B in server B, is there a way to create column A as foreign key referencing column B?
Any idea is appreciated.
HiI am creating new SQL Server Tables using SQL Server 2005. I have setprimary key to the tables .But I do not know how to assign Foreign keyto the tables .I need to do some joins later and that is why I have toput Foreign key to the table . The Primary key is visible and can beassigned easily .But How do I assign foreign key .Thanks*** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***
View 3 Replies View RelatedAs part of a project, I'm not allowed to use foreign keys, well can't. But I have a problem with this master detail relationship (and a very simple one too).
Tables to begin with:
Invoice:
invoiceid : bigint indentity autoincrement primarykey
Detail:
invoiceid: bigint - detailnumber:bigint - desc : char20
Okay - I want to set these two tables up such than when I create a new invoice, and subsequently get the new invoiceid, and I start to add detail records to the detail table, I want the detailnumber to autoincrement when I do an SQL Insert. Right now I have detailnumber as the primary key, so when you view the detail records, it looks like:
(invoiceid, detailnumber, desc) 1,1,text - 1,2,text - 1,3,text - 2,4, text on another invoice - 3,5, text
I want it to work like:
(invoiceid, detailnumber, desc) 1,1,text - 1,2,text - 1,3,text - 2,1, text on another invoice - 3,1, text
where the invoiceid and the detail number make up the primary key.
I seem to recall you could do this is PHP before it had foreign keys & such, and I'm completely drawing a blank on this. BTW - I'm using enterprise manager to set this up, but I can use QA with a sample script to acheive the same.
I realize this may be (and probably is) off-topic here, but I can't figure out where to ask.
Thanks in advance.
I think I did this before but how do you designate foreign keys in SQL Server Management Studio?
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I have tried to convert my SQL Server Express Database file to SQL Server Compact Edition database file and it successfully. But I have some problem with the FK, I could not see the FK symbol in my new SQL Server Compact Edition database file. So i tried another method to implement the FK which is this code of line here
ALTER TABLE EQMetaData ADD CONSTRAINT Reference FOREIGN KEY ([EQID]) REFERENCES Equipments ([ID])
The second method also has no error but I could not see any FK show. Does anyone has this problem? Any suggestion to solve it? Please do share with me.
Thanks,
Bombie
ps: I attached to sreen shots of my DB, 1 is (SQL Express DB) and another is SQL Compact DB.
http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/5/24/1109807/SQLExpress.png
http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/5/24/1109807/SQLCompactEdition.png
Is there any possibility to create a foreign key references more than one tables.
say for example,
Create table sample1(id int primary key)
Create table sample2(id int primary key)
Create table sample3(
id int primary key,
CONSTRAINT fk1 FOREIGN KEY REFERENCES sample1 (ID),CONSTRAINT fk1 FOREIGN KEY REFERENCES sample2 (ID))
this shows no error while creating, but in the data insertion it shows error..
I've following query which display the result as required, but I need to get the missing Primary Key Values which are not available in the result:
SELECTA.SignedByUserID, B.FullName, COUNT(A.OutletID) AS TotalSignups, DATENAME(Month, A.SignupDate) AS Month
FROMdbo.tblMer_Outlet AS A LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.tblGen_Users AS B ON A.SignedByUserID = B.UserID
WHERE(A.SignupDate >= '2014-04-01 00:00:00' AND A.SignupDate <= '2014-04-30 23:59:59')
GROUP BY A.SignedByUserID, B.FullName, DATENAME(Month, A.SignupDate)
This Query returns the following result:
SignedByUserID FullName TotalSignups Month
--------------------------------------------------------
9 Babu Raj 16 April
11 Faheem 19 April
39 Fasil Abbas 16 April
29 Hafiz Suleman 10 April
[code]....
which does not have a signup for the month of April, but I need it to be available for this or any upcoming month. I need this orr all users, which does not exists in the context needs to be displayed in the result.
An SSIS task imports data from a flat file and inserts the data into a staging table. The staging table holds the data in its raw form. A second process then selects the data from the staging table, looking up the foreign key id's for raw data values, and then inserts the data into the live table.
SQL - Only key columns shown for clarity
-- Staging Table
CREATE TABLE Staging
(Information VARCHAR(10),
MachineName VARCHAR(10),
Status VARCHAR(10))
[code]...
The insert into the live table should look up the id for machine 1, and the id of status success and insert the foreign key values into the live table for the row.There could be 1000's of rows for the output of machine 1 all with different status's - (all pre set in the Status table, i.e success, failure, rerun) and the same for lots of other machines held in the machine table.
What is the best to insert this data all in one go, rather than reading each row of the staging table one by one, looking up the foreign key values depending on the machine and status values, then inserting the data.
I was thinking along the lines of:
INSERT INTO dbo.LiveTable
(Information, MachineID, StatusId)
SELECT Staging.Information, dbo.Machine.MachineId, dbo.Status.StatusId
FROM dbo.Staging
JOIN Machine ON Machine.MachineName = Staging.MachineName
JOIN STATUS ON Status.Status = Staging.Status But I notice the problem with this is, it doubles up the inserts!
In a special request run, I need to update locker and lock tables in a sql server 2012 database, I have the following 2 table definitiions:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Locker](
[lockerID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
[schoolID] [int] NOT NULL,
[number] [varchar](10) NOT NULL,
[lockID] [int] NULL
CONSTRAINT [PK_Locker] PRIMARY KEY NONCLUSTERED
[code]....
The locker table is the main table and the lock table is the secondary table. I need to add 500 new locker numbers that the user has given to me to place in the locker table and is uniquely defined by LockerID. I also need to add 500 new rows to the corresponding lock table that is uniquely defined in the lock table and identified by the lockid.
Since lockid is a key value in the lock table and is uniquely defined in the locker table, I would like to know how to update the lock table with the 500 new rows. I would then like to take value of lockid (from lock table for the 500 new rows that were created) and uniquely place those 500 lockids uniquely into the 500 rows that were created for the lock table.
I have sql that looks like the following so far:
declare @SchoolID int = 999
insert into test.dbo.Locker ( [schoolID], [number])
select distinct LKR.schoolID, A.lockerNumber
FROM [InputTable] A
JOIN test.dbo.School SCH ON A.schoolnumber = SCH.type and A.schoolnumber = @SchoolNumber
JOIN test.dbo.Locker LKR ON SCH.schoolID = LKR.schoolID
AND A.lockerNumber not in (select number from test.dbo.Locker where schoolID = @SchoolID)
order by LKR.schoolID, A.lockerNumber
I am not certain how to complete the rest of the task of placing lockerid uniquely into lock and locker tables?
Hi,How to add a foreign key constraint using the SQL server 2000enterprise manager?Not by SQL.thanks
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show me demo of how to create foreign key in SQL server 2000
thank you
maxs
I have question about the size of foreign key’s in sql-server 2012. If I in one table had a foreign key of the “INT” type. Do it still cost 4 bytes of storage?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI ran into an interesting situation. I'm working on contract and was looking at creating an ERD for an existing database when I ran into a problem. I found FK's that are referencing columns that do not have a unique constraint or a unique index.
I don't know the history of the database but was there a time in SQL Server history where this would have been possible? I scripted out the tables and created it in a test database. When I run the script to create the FK I get the following message.
I double checked the original tables and this FK does exist in table1 and there is no unique anything in the referenced table, table2. Currently the database is running on SQL Server 2008 Ent.
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[table1] WITH CHECK ADD CONSTRAINT [FK_table1] FOREIGN KEY([Col1])
REFERENCES [dbo].[table2] ([col2])
There are no primary or candidate keys in the referenced table 'dbo.table2' that match the referencing column list in the foreign key 'FK_table1'.
I'm working on creating a new version of an existing table. I want to keep the old table around, only with a different name. In looking this up I found there's a system routine named sp_rename, which looks like it will work fine.However in thinking about this I realized that the foreign key constraints defined on the table (there's 3 of them) are likely to not be renamed, correct?
If I'm correct, then I suppose I could rename the table, then drop the 3 foreign key constraints, and create them new using different names for those foreign key constraints.
How to copy a table from one server to another server with primary and foreign key constraints.
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We used to used Sql Server 2000 DTS to perform daily backups to remote servers very successfully but just cannot do the same with SSIS.
I set my Transfer Sql Transfer Objects Task to use the following settings:
CopyData = true
ObjectsTocopy = All Tables
As soon as it hits a table that has a foreign key, I get the following error:
"Truncate data failed for Table nnn"
I've tried setting DropObjectsFirst = True but this fails too with foreign key violations.
First of all, am I doing something obviously wrong? Is SSIS not smart enough to drop tables in the right order so that we don't get foreign key violations?
Am I totally barking up the wrong tree with this and can anyone suggest a better way of doing remote backups?
Kind regards
Ben
We have a database. It is enabled for mirroring. We need to delete the old records. That is around 500k records from a table. But it has foreign key relation. How to do in Production servers these kind of deletes?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have taken on a contract to improve reporting for an old HR database that was developed using FoxPro (Visual FoxPro, I think) with the data stored in SQL Server 2000. There are no foreign keys in SQL Server 2000 so the relationships are maintained inside FoxPro.Is there a way of extracting the relationships from the FoxPro code and generate foreign keys in SQL Server, so that I can do proper design?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI get the below error on the event log of my application server which uses SQL database.
Details: RuleId:a811dcbc-4c5b-d9de-592b-f01e17fc0e9a. HealthServiceId:a5f70248-b545-4d35-7c84-e7aa87610ee4. The INSERT statement conflicted with the FOREIGN KEY constraint "FK_Alert_BaseManagedEntity". The conflict occurred in database "OperationsManager",
table "dbo.BaseManagedEntity", column 'BaseManagedEntityId'.
The statement has been terminated.RuleId:a811dcbc-4c5b-d9de-592b-f01e17fc0e9a. HealthServiceId:a5f70248-b545-4d35-7c84-e7aa87610ee4. The INSERT statement conflicted with the FOREIGN KEY constraint "FK_Alert_BaseManagedEntity". The conflict occurred in database "OperationsManager", table "dbo.BaseManagedEntity", column 'BaseManagedEntityId'.The statement has been terminated..
Details: RuleId:a811dcbc-4c5b-d9de-592b-f01e17fc0e9a. HealthServiceId:a5f70248-b545-4d35-7c84-e7aa87610ee4. The INSERT statement conflicted with the FOREIGN KEY constraint "FK_Alert_BaseManagedEntity". The conflict occurred in database "OperationsManager", table "dbo. BaseManaged Entity", column 'BaseManagedEntityId'.The statement has been terminated..
Previously same records exists in table having primary key and table having foreign key . we have faced 7 records were lost from primary key table but same record exists in foreign key table.
View 3 Replies View RelatedHello,
I want to make a poll and have to use a foreign key in my database. This is not possible in Web Matrix so I have to use SQL Enterprise Manager. But don't know how. I read the help but can't figure it out. Can someone help me??? Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Roel Alblas
Hi!
Is it possible in SQL 6.5 to create a Foreign Key on a field that
has a datatype of SMALLINT? I have created FK`s with
other datatypes, but it doesn`t seem to work with this particular
datatype. Is there some trick to this?
Thank you for your assistance!
Toni
When you set a foreign key to reference a primary key on another table, does the foreign key automatically update? Can anyone explain just how to make a relational table from just the nuts and bolts SQL statements.
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I'm trying to make a few tables in SQL (First time user). The tables have been derived from a logical model based around my assignment...
I'm having problem getting two foreign keys in one table in the SQL. I keep getting the duplicate foreign key error...
I'm not sure where i'm going wrong.....
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/Jertsy/Agh.jpg
theres a pic of my tables.... There are 4 tables, blog, blogger, blog_entry, and comment.. Blog is only table without a FK.
have a look & thanks for any and all help....
Spencer.
Hi Friends,Is there any way to get the table name which is referenced by theforeign keyfor example: consider two table "Staff" and "Department"Staff with following columnsPK_IDFK_DepartmentIDNameAddressDepartment with following columnsPK_DepartmentIDDeptNameActually what i need is: Initially i would be having the table name as"Staff"from Staff table i need to identify that the column FK_DepartmentID isa foreign keyand the primary key is in the Department tablei need to traverse from Staff table and identify that FK_DepartmentIDis a primary key in Department tablethis has to be accomplished by sql query.... probably this could befetched fromData Dictionary but i couldnt find the relationship between the systemtables.ThanksArunDhaJ
View 1 Replies View RelatedI would like to create a foreign key but the Primary table has 2 fields as it Primary Key. Is there a way to create a Foreign Key that links only on one field of the primary key.
Ex: table 1: id int , language char(2), description varchar(100) PK = ID + language
table 2 : id int, idlanguage int PK = id FK (idLanguage refers to id from table 1)
This cause an error because the foreign key does not include all part of the primary key.
Rufen
table1
-------
a1 number(10) PK
b1 varchar2(3)
c1 number(10)
Table2
----------
d1 number(10) PK
b1 varchar2(3)
c1 number(10)
Can I make a Foreign key from Table2(b1,c1) to table1(b1,c1) if b1 in table1 might be null.
When I tried that I got this.
ORA-02270: no matching unique or primary key for this column-list
Hi everyone,
My main table has a column named "customer" which is a foreign key pointed to my secondary table consisted of a column "customer_id".
I wanted to change my secondary table's customer_id's name into another name whereby deleting it and create a new column instead (i dont know another way of changing names by code) but i'm not allowed to do that due to "customer_is"'s being attached to my main table as FK.
Any suggestion how to do it ?
Thanks a lot.
i want to make primary key and foreign key relationship of table A1 and table B1 but A1 exist in database A and B1 exist in database B
column name u can pretain as C1, C2
I am deleting a column from a table in code. Before I drop the colum I need to find if the column belongs to a foreign key. I have the names of the foreign keys for the table from sysobjects.How can I determine what columns are part of the foreign key?
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