oracle foreign-key question
Hill, Greg
grhill at corp.untd.com
Tue Aug 22 15:44:59 MDT 2006
> You can have NULL in a column that is a foreign key UNLESS the column
> is also defined to be NOT NULL.
Ah... I had wrongly assumed that the user and visitor tables' primary
keys were declared not null, but after looking again, I noticed they
were not (ie they were nullable).
> You want essentially an XOR condition, which you can emulate by doing
> a CHECK (see below).
Hadn't ever heard of CHECK, that works great, thx.
Much better solution than what I had come up with on my own. Thanks
Michael.
Greg
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