Question

I keep getting this error everytime i try to exceute the query . I checked for any syntax errors multiple time, but i cant find any.

Msg 142, Level 15, State 2, Line 0
Incorrect syntax for definition of the 'TABLE' constraint. 

CREATE TABLE "hold" (
    timePutOnHold TIME(7),
    customer_id VARCHAR(13),REFERENCES "Customer",
    isbn VARCHAR(13) REFERENCES "Item_Details",
    PRIMARY KEY (customer_id, isbn, timePutOnHold)
)

SOLVED! I had to remove a comma after customer_id VARCHAR(13)

Answer 1

customer_id VARCHAR(13),REFERENCES “Customer”,

The comma between the data type and the REFERENCES keyword might be causing the syntax error.

In general, it is a good practice to give meaningful names to constraints so that they can be dropped easily later on.

CREATE TABLE hold 
( 
   timeputonhold TIME(7), 
   customer_id   VARCHAR(13), 
   isbn          VARCHAR(13), 
   CONSTRAINT pk_hold PRIMARY KEY (customer_id, isbn, timeputonhold), 
   CONSTRAINT fk_hold_customer FOREIGN KEY (customer_id) REFERENCES customer(customer_id), 
   CONSTRAINT fk_hold_isbn FOREIGN KEY (isbn) REFERENCES item_details(isbn) 
)