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For more information, see the Sybase Central online Help.
Note Multi-column primary keys are not enforced, and require the keyword
UNENFORCED. Primary key column order is based on the order of the columns
during table creation. It is not based on the order of the columns as specified in
the primary key declaration.
Creating unenforced
foreign keys
You can create a table named emp_skill, which holds a description of each
employee’s skill level for each skill in which they are qualified, as follows:
CREATE TABLE emp_skill(
emp_id INTEGER NOT NULL,
skill_id INTEGER NOT NULL,
"skill level" INTEGER NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY( emp_id, skill_id ) UNENFORCED,
FOREIGN KEY REFERENCES employee UNENFORCED,
FOREIGN KEY REFERENCES skill UNENFORCED
)
The emp_skill table definition has a primary key that consists of two columns:
the
emp_id column and the skill_id column. An employee may have more than
one skill, and so appear in several rows, and several employees may possess a
given skill, so that the
skill_id may appear several times.
The
emp_skill table also has two foreign keys. The foreign key entries indicate
that the
emp_id column must contain a valid employee number from the
employee table, and that the skill_id must contain a valid entry from the skill
table.
A table can only have one primary key defined, but it may have as many
foreign keys as necessary.
Note Adaptive Server IQ does not enforce foreign keys or multi-column
primary keys. You must specify the keyword
UNENFORCED when you add or
delete these constraints. They can be useful, nonetheless, because they provide
information that Adaptive Server IQ uses to optimize queries, and to define the
underlying relationship between joined columns.
For more information about valid strings and identifiers, see the chapter “SQL
Language Elements” in the Adaptive Server IQ Reference Manual.
Creating an
unenforced foreign
key in Sybase Central
Each foreign key relationship relates a primary key in one column to a column
in another table, which becomes the foreign key.