Question

I have the following structure,

USERS (id_user (PK));

USERS_PROJECTS (id_user (FK), id_project (FK));

PROJECTS (id_project (PK), id_owner);

This structure keeps the integrity in the way that when user doesn’t exist he cannot be associated to a new project, but what about id_owner?
This attribute should also be referencing table users and id_user.
So, very project can have many users associated with it, but one of them is the owner of the project.
I would like to have referential integrity defined so that when project is created and id_owner entered, the user alredy exists in users table.
How would you do it?

How about adding id_owner as a FK referencing table users?

Thanks

Answer 1

I think you’ve answered you own question.