how to assign a foreign key in a table

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How to assign a foreign key in a table

Posted 28-Oct-11 1:49am

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[no name] 28-Oct-11 7:55am

Please, don't overload us with all this information.

It's not at all clear what you mean by 'assigning' a foreign key. Do you want to set a foreign key constrain for a table or do you have problems when inserting rows into a table with a foreign key constraint?

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André Kraak · Answer 1 · 2011-10-28T01:52:00

Solution 1

This[^] explain how to create a foreign key constraint.

Posted 28-Oct-11 1:52am

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Uday P.Singh 28-Oct-11 8:03am

my 5!

André Kraak 28-Oct-11 8:33am

Thank you.

P.Salini · Answer 2 · 2011-10-28T01:52:00

Solution 2

Check these links

http://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_foreignkey.asp[^]

http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2008/09/08/sql-server-%E2%80%93-2008-creating-primary-key-foreign-key-and-default-constraint/[^]

http://www.1keydata.com/sql/sql-foreign-key.html[^]

Posted 28-Oct-11 1:52am

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Uday P.Singh 28-Oct-11 8:03am

my 5!

P.Salini 28-Oct-11 8:05am

Thanks Uday

Arasu Rajendran · Answer 3 · 2011-10-28T05:15:00

Solution 3

use this query..

create table tblname(uid int foreign key references dbo.sometable(primarykeycolumn))

hope it helps...

Posted 28-Oct-11 5:15am

Arasu Rajendran

sugumaran srinuvasan · Answer 4 · 2011-10-28T05:21:00

Solution 4

create table tblname(deptid int,dept varchar(50),uid int foreign key references dbo.prevtable(uid))

Posted 28-Oct-11 5:21am

sugumaran srinuvasan