Re: doubt

sathish wrote:
> dear groups,
> i have a doubt in sql,
> i have a table staff_skills in which i have set a table level
> constraint to create a primary key of two fields .
> so 'name' and 'skill' combinedly forms a primary key.
> now the issue is in another table i have only 'name' field and i want
> to create a foreign key constraint which refers the staff_skills table's
> 'name' field only.
> staff_skills (table) - name,skill,ability (columns) --- primary
> key(name,skill)
> staff_xxxx (table) - name,x,y,z (columns) --- foreign
> key(name) references staff_skills(name).
> how to do the above?

You can't. If any occurrence of e.g. "John" in staff_skills refers to
the same person then you should have a separate "person" table to hold
their details.

Your staff_xxx tables can then reference table "person".

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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd