>>Hi,
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>>Can anybody see what is wrong with the following statement to create a foreign constraint:
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>>use [MyDatabase]
>>go
>>alter table [dbo].[Activity] add constraint [FK_Activity_Reference]
>>foreign key ([Reference])
>>references [dbo].[luActivReference] ([ActivRefer])
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>>The error message I get is:
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>>The ALTER TABLE statement conflicted with the FOREIGN KEY constraint "FK_Activity_Reference".
>>The conflict occurred in database "MyDatabase", table "dbo.luActivReference", column 'ActivRefer'.
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>>What should I be looking for in the column ActivRefer?
>
>It means you have values in the column ActivRefer that don't conform to the constraint, in other words, they don't have parents in the luActivReference table.
Oh, I see. This is what the message means. Thank you. I will check all values in the table.
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