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Database System Concepts

7th Edition

ISBN:9780078022159

Author:Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan

Publisher:Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan

Chapter1: Introduction

Section: Chapter Questions

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how do i get invoice and supplier to be a foriegn key

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Step 1

Since here, complete database and table names are not provided. So, we are considering some table along with their column values to help you:

Consider the table Invoice_details, which has only the primary key column invoice_ID.

Consider another table supplier_details which has only primary key column supplier_ID.

And consider the name of the given table to be payment_details which contains all the three-column values invoice_ID, supplier_ID, and payment_ID.

Step 2

FOREIGN KEY:

It is used to provide a linkage between the two or more tables.
It is a field (or collection of fields) in one table which refers to the PRIMARY KEY of another table.
Once, the foreign key is established only those column values are allowed to be inserted in it which are present in the table in which the given column key is primary. and if the details of the column are not available in the primary key column of another table then the user or administrator will not able to insert that record value on the foreign key column. and if the user tries to do this then the system continuously prompts the error the foreign key reference constraint is failed.

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