For this question, I am referring to the specific case where you have table T, it has primary key K, but K is a foreign key. Is this valid? And how would you write it in SQL99?
All the other questions I’ve seen on here are just asking whether or not a primary key can be a foreign key for another table. That’s not what I’m asking about. I’m asking about a table which has a foreign key where that is the primary key of that table.
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Answer
A column can be a primary key as well foreign key. For example, refer to the following:
A column can be both a primary key and a foreign key. For example:
create table A ( id int not null , constraint PK_A primary key (id) ); create table B ( id int not null ,constraint PK_B primary key (id) ,constraint FK_B_ID foreign key (id) references A(id) );
Though, this requires data to be present in Table B first.