I have a reminder table (ParentId) – Foreign key to ProductId from Product and also OrderId from Order table. Is it possible? When I try to insert the data for the Reminder table belongs to OrderId, I’m getting Foreign-Key constraint error.
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Reminder
- ReminderId
- ParentId
Product
- ProductId
Order
- OrderId
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[Reminder] WITH NOCHECK ADD CONSTRAINT [FK_Reminder_ProductId] FOREIGN KEY([ParentId])
REFERENCES [dbo].[Product] ([ProductId])
GO
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[Reminder] NOCHECK CONSTRAINT [FK_Reminder_ProductId]
GO
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[Reminder] WITH NOCHECK ADD CONSTRAINT [FK_Reminder_OrderId] FOREIGN KEY([ParentId])
REFERENCES [dbo].[Quote] ([QuoteId])
GO
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[Reminder] NOCHECK CONSTRAINT [FK_Reminder_OrderId]
GO
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Answer
You can do this with a bit of work, using foreign key relationships and computed columns. This does require a “type” of some sort in the table:
create table reminders (
ReminderId . . . primary key,
parentId int, -- presumably
type varchar(255),
check (type in ('product', 'order')),
parent_productid as (case when type = 'product' then parentId end) persisted,
parent_orderid as (case when type = 'order' then parentId end) persisted,
foreign key (parent_productid) references products(productId),
foreign key (parent_orderid) references orders(orderid)
);
Here is a db<>fiddle.