Re: understanding foreign keys

2004-03-15 Thread Andrew Zhu
I think, the two formats you raised are both that of foreign key constraint: when there is a composite foreign key (more than 1 attribute in a table involved), you must use "foreign key" clause. if there is only a simple foreign key, you can use either format. --- Egor Egorov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

question: check constraint

2004-03-13 Thread Andrew Zhu
Mysql 4.0.12 on win xp. Question: is the check constraint supported? Example: create table temp ( c1 varchar (50) check (c1 like "[EMAIL PROTECTED]") ); insert into temp values ("whatever"); will succeed. Is my constraint wrong (say to check the email address)? or this is just parsed without en