Re: Foreign key problem
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 23:54:49 +0200
Message-ID: <448f33f6$0$31644$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl>
Kenneth Downs wrote:
>>> In the limited example given in the post, yes.
>>>
>>> In fact we have half-dozen or so other flags on the FK table,
>>> two of which combine to provide
>>> multiple FK's between any two tables.
>>> We employ a "suffix" and a "prefix" property, each of
>>> which is used to alter the names of the columns in the
>>> child tables by adding the obvious prefix or suffix
>>> to each column in the child table.
Yes, that is clear. What your example also showed is that what you consider the /obvious/ pre- or suffix may be borrowed from the place in the model rather than from the place in the universe of discourse (UOD).
Say we have a database with games of bridge:
Player(*Id, Ranking, ...
Game(*G#, N_player, E_player, S_player, W_player, ...
Here are four FK's in the same 'child' table
referencing the very same 'parent' table (adopting
your terminology for now). Terms from the place in
the model (_parent, _child) do not help at all
to distinguish the FK's.
Terms from the place in UOD, specifically the /role/
of the Player in the Game, do help: North, East, etc.
[snip] Received on Tue Jun 13 2006 - 23:54:49 CEST