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Microsoft SQL Server
Category:
Database design
Title:
Newbie question on creating constraint
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SQL Server:
SQL Server 2005
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Thread ID:
01242717
Message ID:
01242717
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I need to learn how to create a constraint in SQL Server database that will serve the following purpose (I will demonstrate on simple example):

Parent Table Structure:
FALIAS CHAR(20)
FENTRY CHAR(10)
FPK I (Primary Key)
(Expression FALIAS + FENTRY is a candidate index key)

Child Table Structure (Simplified):
FENTRY CHAR(10)

When user adds a record to the Child table and the value set to the field FENTRY does not exist in the Parent table I want SQL Server to reject the entry.

How do I do it?
"The creative process is nothing but a series of crises." Isaac Bashevis Singer
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