>>Bill,
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>>Must be misunderstanding. I didn't say that CLASS_PK is the primary key in the PARTS table. It is the primary key in the PART_CLASS table (new table). (the PARTS table does have the primary key which is not relevant to this).
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>OK.
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>How did you go about setting the foreign key restraint?
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In SSMS I go to PARTS table, right mouse click on Keys and click on New Foreign Key. Then specify that Primary table is PART_CLASS with column CLASS_PK and Foreign table is PARTS with column CLASS_PK. In the UPDATE specification I set to Default on Delete.
And then it fails on saving the table.
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