> As part of my 4th Year Group Design Project, I am required to build a
> database system that will validate and then store the data. As such I
> am currently investigating different DB, to choose the most suitable
> one. I like many features of MySQL but there are a couple of things I
> am not very clear about that I would need for the project.
>
> First of all, is there any way of limiting the number of rows in a
> table, referencing to the same element of another table? For example,
> force a manager not to have more than 10 employees under his control.
> In a way this can be seen as checking the multiplicity of the
> relation between the two tables. I know one way would be using
> triggers, but I was wondering if there was a way of specifying this
> when the table is constructed.
The way to do this would be via CHECK constraints, but MySQL
doesn't support them.
> Second, is there any way of getting more details out of an error
> message? So for example, when doing a bulk upload to the database,
> rather than just getting "Cannot add or update a child row: a foreign
> key constraint fails" I would like to know which particular insert
> statement (out of the 1000 I have) caused the problem, or which field
> in this statement broke the constraint.
Check for "innodb status" in the documentation.
With regards,
Martijn Tonies
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