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Create a Foreign Key
How to
To create a Foreign Key
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Locate the required Tables in a diagram. Both tables must have defined database types.
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Select an Associate connector in the Class Relationships page of the Toolbox.
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Click on the Table to contain the Foreign Key (source) and draw the connector to the other Table (target).
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Right-click on the connector and select the Foreign Keys context menu option. The Foreign Key Constraint dialog displays.
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The default foreign key name is set by the Foreign Key Name Template. To change the name to something other than the default provided by the template, select the Override Template checkbox and edit the foreign key name.
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In the Source: panel and the Target: panel, click on the name of each of the two columns involved in the Foreign Key relationship.
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From the On Delete and/or On Update combo boxes, select the appropriate referential integrity constraint.
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Click on the Apply or OK buttons to automatically generate the Foreign Key operations.
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Example
The example below shows how a Foreign Key looks in a diagram:
Notes
| • | For MySQL databases, Foreign Keys are supported for InnoDB tables only. InnoDB is the default MySQL storage engine as of version 5.5; if you are modeling a MySQL database that is earlier than version 5.5 and you want to use Foreign Keys, you must ensure the Engine Tagged Value is set to InnoDB |
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