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Daniel Malek
20,140 PointsFOREIGN KEY
I try to understand FOREIGN KEY's. So I created database with 2 tables r_customers and r_cars. With Ttreehouse support I know how to use FOREIGN KEY when 1 customer owns 1 car how I can deal with situation when 1 customer owns 2 cars or 1 car has 2 owners?
1 Answer
Jeff Lemay
14,266 PointsWhat you're talking about is a one-to-many relationship but what I think you really want is a many-to-many relationship (where an owner can have multiple cars and the cars can be belong to multiple owners). Check out this link for a pretty good explanation: http://code.tutsplus.com/articles/sql-for-beginners-part-3-database-relationships--net-8561 .
Daniel Malek
20,140 PointsBIG FAT THANKS for that. Great material and exactly what I need. :) :)
Daniel Malek
20,140 PointsDaniel Malek
20,140 Pointsthats querry I used to create one row:
ALTER TABLE ram_customers ADD COLUMN c_car_1 INTEGER NULL, ADD CONSTRAINT FOREIGN KEY (c_car_1) REFERENCES ram_customers(car_ref_nr);
if I try to do next one
ALTER TABLE ram_customers ADD COLUMN c_car_2 INTEGER NULL, ADD CONSTRAINT FOREIGN KEY (c_car_2) REFERENCES ram_customers(car_ref_nr);
I get an error
1215 - Impossible d'ajouter des contraintes d'index externe
(and I have no idea why is in French :) )