Re: Altering Table - Adding Primary Key With References

From: Sietse Wijnker (sietse.wijnker_at_ATsw-software.nl)
Date: 09/02/04

  • Next message: Anders Altberg: "Re: Altering Table - Adding Primary Key With References" 
    Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 23:48:31 +0200

    Hi Mikhail,

    You are (and i was) overlooking some additional clauses of the CREATE TABLE
    command.
    <some clauses snipped out/>
    CREATE TABLE | DBF TableName1 [NAME LongTableName] [FREE]
        ( FieldName1 FieldType [( nFieldWidth [, nPrecision] )] [NULL | NOT
    NULL]
        [, FieldName2 ... ]
        [, PRIMARY KEY eExpression2 TAG TagName2]
        [, FOREIGN KEY eExpression4 TAG TagName4 REFERENCES TableName3 [TAG
    TagName5]])

    the same goes for the ALTER TABLE command
    <some clauses snipped out/>
    ALTER TABLE TableName1
       [ADD PRIMARY KEY eExpression3 [FOR lExpression4] TAG TagName2
       [ADD FOREIGN KEY [eExpression5] [FOR lExpression6] TAG TagName4
    REFERENCES TableName2 [TAG TagName5]]

    Sample code:
    Parent table testparent references testchild through use of the index on
    tch_tpr_ifk (TAG tpr_ifk)

    CREATE TABLE testParent (;
     tpr_ipk_longerthan10 I AUTOINC, ;
     tpr_cvalue C(10), ;
     PRIMARY KEY tpr_ipk_longerthan10 TAG tpr_ipk)

    CREATE TABLE testChild (;
     tch_ipk I AUTOINC, ;
     tch_tpr_ifk I, ;
     tch_cvalue C(10), ;
     PRIMARY KEY tch_ipk TAG tch_ipk, ;
     FOREIGN KEY tch_tpr_ifk TAG tpr_ifk REFERENCES testParent TAG tpr_ipk )

    Regards,
    Sietse Wijnker

    "Mikhail" <Mikhail@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
    news:EAAF4F42-E926-42BF-9463-1D07616070D3@microsoft.com...
    > You don't understand me, may be because my english is not so good :-)
    >
    > In identity relashionship primary key from parent table migrate in child
    > table as primary key.
    >
    > VFP:
    >
    > If in parent table field name for PK not longer 10 char's i can use
    > following code:
    >
    > CREATE TABLE ChildTable ( ;
    > ChildTablePrimaryKey I PRIMARY KEY REFERENCES ParentTable, ;
    > ....
    > )
    > but if name of field is longer 10 char's a erro? "Tag Name is too long"
    > is
    > occured.
    >
    > In next example i can specify TAG for PRIMARY KEY but can't specify
    > REFRENCE
    >
    > CREATE TABLE ChildTable ( ;
    > ChildTablePrimaryKey I, ;
    > ....
    > PRIMARY KEY ChildTablePrimaryKey TAG ChildTabPK
    > )
    >
    > In ALTER TABLE command works similarly.
    >

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