Hi! I know older versions of MySQL do not support foreign keys. Find out weather your version do. If not, you may have to do without the foreign keys in your definitions.
Best regards Babs -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Morten Gulbrandsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Freitag, 15. August 2003 12:05 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: I simply can't compile this CREATE TABLE EMPLOYEE ( FNAME VARCHAR(15) NOT NULL, MINIT CHAR, LNAME VARCHAR(15) NOT NULL, SSN CHAR(9) NOT NULL, BDATE DATE, ADDRESS VARCHAR(30), SEX CHAR, SALARY DECIMAL(10,2), SUPERSSN CHAR(9), DNO INT NOT NULL DEFAULT 1, PRIMARY KEY (SSN), INDEX (SUPERSSN), INDEX (DNO) )TYPE = INNODB; CREATE TABLE DEPARTMENT ( DNAME VARCHAR(15) NOT NULL, DNUMBER INT NOT NULL, MGRSSN CHAR(9) NOT NULL DEFAULT '888665555', MGRSTARTDATE DATE, PRIMARY KEY (DNUMBER), UNIQUE (DNAME), INDEX (MGRSSN) )TYPE = INNODB; ALTER TABLE EMPLOYEE ADD FOREIGN KEY (SUPERSSN) REFERENCES EMPLOYEE(SSN) ON DELETE SET NULL ON UPDATE CASCADE; ALTER TABLE EMPLOYEE # here is the buggy code ADD FOREIGN KEY (DNO) REFERENCES DEPARTMENT(DNUMBER) ON DELETE SET DEFAULT ON UPDATE CASCADE; ALTER TABLE DEPARTMENT ADD FOREIGN KEY (MGRSSN) REFERENCES EMPLOYEE(SSN) ON DELETE SET DEFAULT ON UPDATE CASCADE ; Please tell me what could be wrong, Yours Sincerely Morten Gulbrandsen -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
