Re: How to represent a total-and-exclusive relation into a relational database
From: Mark D Powell <Mark.Powell_at_eds.com>
Date: 19 Jan 2005 12:36:39 -0800
Message-ID: <1106166999.904249.189350_at_z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>
Date: 19 Jan 2005 12:36:39 -0800
Message-ID: <1106166999.904249.189350_at_z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>
Mathieu, Celko created the UK on the PK + another attribute, in this case, vehicle_type because his design calls for creating a table for each vehicle type and he want a FK from the vehicle type tables back to the parent for referential integrity.
HTH -- Mark D Powell -- Received on Wed Jan 19 2005 - 21:36:39 CET
