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Can FK have NULL when PK not NULL?
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Microsoft SQL Server
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Title:
Can FK have NULL when PK not NULL?
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SQL Server 2005
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Thread ID:
01547080
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01547080
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Hi,

I have been testing the following scenario:

Parent table has PK Integer. This key cannot have NULL; this is an Identity column.
Child table has FK with the constraint set to the PK of the parent. If I set a value of this FK of one of the rows to NULL, I get no error. I thought that because the constraint requires that FK has to have a value in the parent table and the parent table has no NULL values, I should get an error. But I don't. What am I missing? TIA.
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