Question

I’m trying to add a small test table to the dbml designer, but it fails – nothing happends and there is no error message. The table is:

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Car]
(
    CarID       INT NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1)
    CONSTRAINT  PK_Car PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED,
    RegNo       VARCHAR(7) NOT NULL,
    ModelID     INT NOT NULL
    CONSTRAINT FK_Car_Model FOREIGN KEY REFERENCES Model (ModelID)
)

If I drop the FK_Car_Model constraint it works. Am I missing something about how the designer works with relations?

Answer 1

A bit more than a year later, I came across the same situation again and this time it was solved by renaming a foreign key(!).

I have two tables Cars and Persons. Cars has a column OwnerID which is a reference to the owner. If the foreign key is named FK_Car_Owner it doesn’t work. If the foreign key is renamed to FK_Cars_Owner it works.