Question

I do not really know whether this is logically feasible but I have a table:

PERSON: Id (PK), Name, SoldTo (FK), ShipTo (FK), BillTo (FK)

ADDRESS: AddrId (PK), Street, Number, Town, Type

Type in ADDRESS will contain a string describing the address type. I would like to link SoldTo, ShipTo and BillTo to AddrId. Of course they can also point at the same record.

However in SSMS it forbids me to do that.

Anybody knows a workaround or a better way to do it? Thanks

UPDATE

In order to see what I mean with “SSMS forbids me to do that” have a look at the screenshot in the link below. Consider CMF_ContactInfo as ADDRESS and CMF_AccountInfo as PERSON. As you can see I can add ContactId to the relationship just once…

Answer 1

You have to add multiple relationships ! (with different names) Just like if it were different tables.