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.
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.