Hi,
I have a datatable with the following values:
ID
CompanyID
CompanyName.
Here ID is the foreign key. I was wondering if there was a way to update tables with foreign keys. Searching for stuff gave me something like update cascade. Can somebody please elaborate on that?
Hi
I am trying to update tables "Table A" & " TableB" with a new value for a particular column1. Now "TableA" contains a foreign key "FK1" defined on it and is referencing another table "Table B" containing the similar column "Column1"
Because of this constraint I was not able to update TableA and TableB. My question is
1) If i wanted to go ahead with this update, what are the possible ways?
2) If only solution is to drop the constraint. Then How do i know the definition for this particular Foreign key, i mean it may refer some columns in Table B. I wanted to know the complete definition of it so that i can rebuild the constraint after the update. Right now i can see only the constraint name when i use sp_help TableA. But how do i know the complete reference made by this foreign key.
Early reply is much appreciated
Thanks!
Hello!
I have a "current" table which users update on a daily basis, it holds forecast data. This table is designed to only hold 7 days of data and is therfore always rolling over by date.
What I want to do is have a procedure that copies this "Current" table to a "History" table every day so the historical information is stored. The copy is simple, but how do I check for and over ride values that are already in the "history" table with the newest values from the "current" table because the "current" values have the possibility of changing a few times while the forecast is updated. I can define a primary key but am not sure how to check for and update the necessary values?
Any help??
Many thanks!
I am brand new to SQL Server 2000 and have encountered an issue. I created a DB with 5 or so tables all of which contain different client information. All tables are related via the Client_ID primary key I set in my main table, and foreign key in all the subsequent tables. Im using a Microsoft Access Project form as the front end.
Im having trouble figuring out how to populate the subsequent tables with the Client_ID after a enter the data in the Main table where the primary key resides.
Do I create a trigger or a stored procedure...am i even in the ballpark?
thanks in advance.
Hey guys this is a SQL Server 2005, .net 2.0 question. I got 3 tables: Job, Times, Employee. The times table is related to Job and Employee by foreign keys. The Times table is pretty much a table where the employee's time logs are kept for a specific job. Since there was a M:M relationship between Job - Employee, I decided to create a Times table in between, and the primary key of this table should actually be the PK of Job and the PK Employee, but I couldn't figure out how to make a PK consisting of two fields.
Anyhow, my main question is: How to assign an Employee to a specific job in .net? In other words, what's the best way of retrieving the Job_id and Emp_id and sticking them in the Times table? I was doing a form with a drop down for Emp_id and Job_id, but I don't know how to do the inserts... I'm confused and would appreciate any help.THANKS!
I am in the process of building a fact table in a staging area. The data in the host system has numerous composite keys, so I have replaced all the composite keys in the dimensions with surrogate keys (integer) which are generated using an identity at load time. When I load the staging (fact) table, I have set the default value of all the foreign keys to 0. What I must do now is update all the foreign key values with the surrogate key values from the dimensions. I'm using an update command and the original gid values from the source system in the where clause...i.e.
UPDATE X
SET x.key_1 = y.key_1
FROM TableA X WITH (NOLOCK)
INNER JOIN TableB Y WITH (NOLOCK)
ON x.org_id = y.org_id
AND x.bus_id = y.bus_id
AND x.prov_gid = y.prov_gid
AND x.log_gid = y.loc_gid;
This seems to work fine for most tables. However, I am now trying to update a table that has over 10 million rows and approximately 30 foreign keys. The script runs for hours. I ususally stop it after about 8 hours when it still hasn't completed. Since the keys are dynamic and they could possibly change during each load process, I can't add them during the load process.
Is there a better way to update these keys. I need to regenerate the fact tables every night and taking this much time to reload a fact table is just not practicle. I've indexed the alternate keys on all the dimensions and have also indexed the gids on the target fact table. Am I doing something wrong? Have I over indexed the target table? Please help! Thanks Jerry
Hi,
I have a dimension called 'Caller Type' with the following attributes:
CallerTypeKey ---- surrogate key
CallerTypeID
CallerTypeDesc
CreatedByKey ---- foreign surrogate key from User Dimension
I used Script Task to get the last used key and increment it so i can use it for new records in my dimension. however, my dimension is linked to a User Dimension and I need the surrogate key of that once I insert the new record to CallerType Dimension.
How would I do that?
cherriesh
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.
Thanks
Regards
Prasad.
I am very new to SQL Server 2005. I have created a package to load data from a flat delimited file to a database table. The initial load has worked. However, in the future, I will have flat files used to update the table. Some of the records will need to be inserted and some will need to update existing rows. I am trying to do this from SSIS. However, I am very lost as to how to do this.
Any suggestions?
I want to make a query, stored procedure, or whatever which will only display the primary key where there does no exist a foreign key in linked table.For example. If I had two tables with a one to many relationship.A [Computer] has one or more [Hard Drives]. I want to select only those computers which do not have a Hard Drive(s) associated with them. That is, show all computers where the Computer_ID field in the [Hard Drives] table does not exist. This seems simple but I'm drawing a blank here.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI need to delete records from a table (Table1) which has a foreign key column in a related table (Table2).
Table1 columns are: table1Id; Name. Table2 columns include Table2.table1Id which is the foreign key to Table1.
What is the syntax to delete records from Table1 using Table1.Name='some name' and remove any records in Table2 that have Table2.table1Id equal to Table1.table1Id?
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 Related Here is my issue I am new to 2005 sql server, and am trying to take my old data which is exported to a txt file and import it to tables in sql. The older database is non relational, and I had made several exports for the way I want to build my tables. I built my packages fine and everything is working until I start building relationships. I remove my foreign key and the table with the primary key will get updated for the package again. I need to update the data daily into sql, and once in it will only be update from the package until the database is moved over.
It will run and update with a primary key until I add a foreign key to another database.
Here is my error when running the package when table 2 has a foreign key.
[Execute SQL Task] Error: Executing the query "TRUNCATE TABLE [consumer].[dbo].[Client] " failed with the following error: "Cannot truncate table 'consumer.dbo.Client' because it is being referenced by a FOREIGN KEY constraint.". Possible failure reasons: Problems with the query, "ResultSet" property not set correctly, parameters not set correctly, or connection not established correctly.
mahesh writes "HI,
I am new to sql server.
can anybody help me
I have a table named tblqualificationmaster.
can i know the foreignkeys and the table related to this
tblqualificationmaster having foeign keys using stored procedure."
it is attributed ?
Hi everyone,
My table contains columns that are goreign keys to other tables. How can i tell to which table/column each fk is attributed ?
Thanks
For this example suppose than we a have a DB in SQL Server 2000 with the tables Client, Orders and DetailOrders. the field for each one are:
Client: id_Cliente, Name_client
Orders: id_Order, fk_client, date
DetailOrders: id_Detail, fk_Order, Product
Between all this tables exist one or more foreign key restriction but I don't know them. However I know than exist a row in the SYSOBJECTS (system table) per each one of the foreing key restriction, using this information I want to build a query than back to me something like this:
Type Table1 Field1 Table2 Field2
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FK Orders fk_Client Clients id_Client
FK DetailOrders fk_Order Orders id_OrderFK
Somebody can tell me hoy can i do it?
tks 4 help.
Leo.
Hello friends,
I am new to the SQL Server 2005 development.
From last 1 week or so, i have been facing very strange problem with my sql server 2005s database
which is configured and set on the hosting web server. Right now for managing my sql server 2005 database,
i am using an web based Control Panel developed by my hosting company.
Problem i am facing is that, whenever i try to modify (i.e. add new columns) tables in the database,
it gives me error saying that,
"There is already an object named 'PK_xxx_Temp' in the database. Could not create constraint. See previous errors.
Source: .Net SqlClient Data Provider".
where xxx is the table name.
I have done quite a bit research on the problem and have also searched on the net for solution but still
the problem persist.
Thanks in advance. Any help will be appreciated.
I was thinking of adding tables to ASPNetDB.mdf and have one of those tables have column userid as a foreign key from aspnet_Users
When I try to create relationship in Diagram, I get error saying that "data typ properties does not match"
userid in aspNet_Users is uniqueidentifier and userid (fk) in new table is int
What should I use, should I do that at all?
Thanks
Hi how do i to delete a table with a foreign key?
When i try to delete the table i get error 3726
any?
hi all
can we assign two foreign key to one table .
I have created two tables in phpMyAdmin 3.5.8.1. comments which stores comments users post on a website and registration which stores a users registration details (username, password, e-mail etc, etc).
I want to add the username field from the registration table as a foreign key to the comments table. How do I do this in phpMyAdmin?
use default pubs database in sqlserver2000.
use authors table and publishers table.
Write a query to list first name, last of all authors
and name of the publisher (if any) present in the same city
as the author. If no publisher is present in the city
where the author is located then the column should contain a
NULL value. If there is more than one publisher in the city
where the author is located, then the details of
the author are to be repeated for each publisher.
but there is no field match between authors table and publishers table.
There is itemlookup table, which stores item number and itemdescription. Also there is a child table, pricehistory, of theitemlookup table, which stores different prices and different dateranges. So it is one-to-many relationship. (Price can be stored morethan one with a different date range)And there is another table RequestItem that stores the foreign key ofthe itemlookup table to show the information of the itemlookup table.Then how do I know later which date range of the price was stored inthe RequestItem table? Since I only keep the foreign key of theitemlookup table, it will be impossible to keep track of the row of thepricehistory table if there are more than one data existed in thepricehistory table.Will it be a valid table structure to create a column for the foreignkey of the pricehistory in RequestItem table or any other ways tohandle this issue?
View 1 Replies View RelatedHi All,
I have a Problem while updating one table data from another table's data using sql server 2000.
I have 2 tables named TableA(PID,SID,MinForms) , TableB(PID,SID,MinForms)
I need to update TableA with TableB's data using a single query that i have including in a stored procedure.
If the id1 will change in table1 it should also change the corresponding id1 field in table2 it does not do anything.
CREATE TRIGGER [dbo].[IDCHANGE]
ON [dbo].[table1]
AFTER UPDATE
AS
BEGIN
-- SET NOCOUNT ON added to prevent extra result sets from
[Code] .....
We have two tables with names X and Y.
X has a,b columns. And Y has c,d columns.
I want to update b column in X table with the values from d column in Y table on condition X.a=Y.c.
I've just found out about the concept that a table should only be references by foreign keys a maximum of 253 times throughout the database. I was hoping someone could give me a better idea of the dangers of disregarding this recommendation.
In our database, we have a Users table, which contains all of the users of a given system. In nearly every other table in our database, we have a field to indicate which user created the record. This is a reference back to the Users table. But as the number of tables has grown, we've surpassed that 253 limit. All I can tell, practically, is that I can no longer delete from the Users table. The query will fail, telling me the query optimizer ran out of memory, and that I should simplify my query.
The Users table is the only table that even comes close to this number of foreign key references. I don't even mind being unable to delete from the table. I'm mostly wondering if there are other problems with my design that will cause issues?
Is there a better way to keep track of who created a record in the database? Is it bad design to reference my Users table in so many places?
Thanks,
Newbie question. Can someone show me an SQL statement that sorts the results of a query by a field in a different table?
CREATE TABLE `Table1`
(
`table1_id` INTEGER AUTO_INCREMENT ,
`table1_name` VARCHAR(255),
PRIMARY KEY (`table1_id`)
)
CREATE TABLE `Table2`
(
`table2_id` INTEGER AUTO_INCREMENT ,
`table2_name` VARCHAR(255),
`table2_table1` INTEGER,
PRIMARY KEY (`table2_id`)
)
ALTER TABLE `Table2` ADD FOREIGN KEY (`table2_table1`) REFERENCES `Table1`(`table1_id`);
What I'd like is something like:
SELECT * FROM Table2 ORDER BY "Table1(table2_table1).tabel1_name",table2_name
It's the section in double quotes that I can't figure out how to compose.
As an example, if Table 1 has
1, A
2, B
3, C
and Table 2 has
1, a, 2
2, b, 1
3, c, 2
then I'd like the sort to return
2, b, 1
1, a, 2
3, c, 2
TIA,
Stephen
I have two tables as below. I want to update a quote and change the item for which it is for. So I want to do an update statement to change the cat_ref that the quote is for. However, when I do this I get a foreign key conflict with cat_ref in the item table. How do I get around this? Thanks
Code:
CREATE TABLE Item (
cat_ref VARCHAR(5)PRIMARY KEY,
descrip VARCHAR(50),
date_added SMALLDATETIME,
cat_type VARCHAR(20))
CREATE TABLE has_quote (
quote_id INT IDENTITY (1,1) PRIMARY KEY,
date_last_pricecheck SMALLDATETIME,
cat_ref VARCHAR(5)FOREIGN KEY
REFERENCES Item(cat_ref)
ON DELETE CASCADE,
first_name VARCHAR(10),
surname VARCHAR(10),
FOREIGN KEY (first_name, surname)
REFERENCES Customer(first_name, surname)
ON DELETE CASCADE
ON UPDATE CASCADE)
How do I create a table with a foreign key
View 6 Replies View RelatedHi,
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.
Hey.
I'm trying to create some tables in my database but I'm getting some errors... The one which is causing the most trouble is Msg 1767, Level 16, State 0, Line 38
Foreign key 'ten_fk' references invalid table 'Tenant'.
I'm not sure why it's complaining... can anyone help me out here?
Cheers!
-- Mitch Curtis
-- A2create.sql
-- Set the active database to KWEA.
USE KWEA;
-- Drop existing tables (if any).
DROP TABLE Ownership;
DROP TABLE Tenant;
DROP TABLE Staff;
DROP TABLE Property;
DROP TABLE Property_Status_Report;
DROP TABLE Property_Owner;
DROP TABLE Placement_Record;
DROP TABLE Candidate_Tenant;
DROP TABLE Waiting_List;
-- Create new tables.
CREATE TABLE Waiting_List
(
waiting# INT IDENTITY(1,1) PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL,
candidate_name VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL,
anticipated_start_date SMALLDATETIME NULL,
anticipated_end_date SMALLDATETIME NULL,
max_affordable_rent SMALLMONEY NOT NULL
);
CREATE TABLE Candidate_Tenant
(
candidate# INT IDENTITY(1,1) PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL,
waiting# INT NULL,
name VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL,
phone_number INT NOT NULL,
required_property_type VARCHAR(10) NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT w_fk FOREIGN KEY(waiting#) REFERENCES Waiting_List(waiting#)
);
CREATE TABLE Placement_Record
(
opening# INT IDENTITY(1,1) PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL,
tenant# INT NOT NULL,
start_date SMALLDATETIME NOT NULL,
end_date SMALLDATETIME NOT NULL,
total_bonds SMALLMONEY NOT NULL,
weekly_rent SMALLMONEY NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT ten_fk FOREIGN KEY(tenant#) REFERENCES Tenant(tenant#)
);
CREATE TABLE Property_Owner
(
owner# INT IDENTITY(1,1) PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL,
name VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL,
phone_number INT NOT NULL
);
CREATE TABLE Property_Status_Report
(
address VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL,
report_date SMALLDATETIME NOT NULL,
weekly_rent SMALLMONEY NOT NULL,
month_rent_start_date SMALLDATETIME NOT NULL,
month_rent_end_date SMALLDATETIME NOT NULL,
maintenance_fee SMALLMONEY NOT NULL,
month_inspection_history VARCHAR(30) NULL,
CONSTRAINT ar_pk PRIMARY KEY(address, report_date),
FOREIGN KEY(address) REFERENCES Property(address)
);
CREATE TABLE Property
(
address VARCHAR(30) PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL,
staff# INT IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
type VARCHAR NOT NULL,
occupant_limit INT NOT NULL,
comments VARCHAR(30) NULL,
FOREIGN KEY(staff#) REFERENCES Staff(staff#)
);
CREATE TABLE Staff
(
staff# INT IDENTITY(1,1) PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL,
manager# INT NOT NULL,
name VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL,
FOREIGN KEY(manager#) REFERENCES Staff(staff#)
);
CREATE TABLE Tenant
(
tenant# INT IDENTITY(1,1) PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL,
staff# INT NOT NULL,
property_address VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL,
name VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL,
phone_number INT NOT NULL,
street VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL,
city VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL,
postcode INT NOT NULL,
category VARCHAR(10) NOT NULL,
comments VARCHAR(30) NULL,
FOREIGN KEY(staff#) REFERENCES Staff(staff#),
FOREIGN KEY(property_address) REFERENCES Property(address)
);
CREATE TABLE Ownership
(
address VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL,
owner# INT NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT ao_pk PRIMARY KEY(address, owner#),
FOREIGN KEY(address) REFERENCES Property(address),
FOREIGN KEY(owner#) REFERENCES Property_Owner(owner#)
);
-- Display tables.
SELECT * FROM Waiting_List;
SELECT * FROM Candidate_Tenant;
SELECT * FROM Placement_Record;
SELECT * FROM Property_Owner;
SELECT * FROM Property_Status_Report;
SELECT * FROM Property;
SELECT * FROM Staff;
SELECT * FROM Tenant;
SELECT * FROM Ownership;
Errors:
Msg 3701, Level 11, State 5, Line 8
Cannot drop the table 'Ownership', because it does not exist or you do not have permission.
Msg 3701, Level 11, State 5, Line 9
Cannot drop the table 'Tenant', because it does not exist or you do not have permission.
Msg 3701, Level 11, State 5, Line 10
Cannot drop the table 'Staff', because it does not exist or you do not have permission.
Msg 3701, Level 11, State 5, Line 11
Cannot drop the table 'Property', because it does not exist or you do not have permission.
Msg 3701, Level 11, State 5, Line 12
Cannot drop the table 'Property_Status_Report', because it does not exist or you do not have permission.
Msg 3701, Level 11, State 5, Line 13
Cannot drop the table 'Property_Owner', because it does not exist or you do not have permission.
Msg 3701, Level 11, State 5, Line 14
Cannot drop the table 'Placement_Record', because it does not exist or you do not have permission.
Msg 1767, Level 16, State 0, Line 38
Foreign key 'ten_fk' references invalid table 'Tenant'.
Msg 1750, Level 16, State 0, Line 38
Could not create constraint. See previous errors.