Hi Tom,
I have a question regarding to add some constraint into a table.
I have 2 tables defined as:
create table TableA (
fieldA varchar2(10),
fieldB varchar2(10),
fieldC varchar2(5),
fieldD varchar2(10) not null,
fieldE number(38) not null,
Constraint TableAPK primary key (fieldE));
create table TableB(
categorie varchar2(255),
soort varchar(255) not null,
code varchar(255) not null,
status varchar(255),
Constraint TableB primary key (code));
In TableA; the values from fieldA, fieldB, fieldC and fieldD are used to populate the TableB on column code.
The column soort in TableB is filled depending which kind of field are comming from TableA.
As example:
TableA
fieldA fieldB fieldC fieldD fieldE
—————- —————- —————- —————- —————-
PAS304 344555 PG1AA 36415 305
TableB
categorie soort code status
————————- ————- —————- ——————
[null] ALT PAS304 free
[null] MMS 344555 free
[null] ROE PG1AA free
[null] TOR 36415 free
My question:
It is possible to create new constraints foreign-keys in TableA for fieldA, fieldB, fieldC and fieldD with the fields from TableB (soort, code).
I tried something like this but I am not sure if this is what I want.
ALTER TABLE TableA
ADD CONSTRAINT fieldA_FK
FOREIGN KEY (fieldA)
REFERENCES TableB (CODE);
ALTER TABLE TableA
ADD CONSTRAINT fieldB_FK
FOREIGN KEY (fieldB)
REFERENCES TableB (CODE);
etc
Thanks in advance for your answer.
With kind regards,
Ricardo Barrera Ramírez
So you mean conditionally choose which column of A is the parent of a column in B?
If so, you can't do that.
It's unclear to me why you're trying to do this. Please share background into the problem you're trying to solve here and we'll see how we can help.