Question

I’m using SQL Server 2008. I’m getting an error when I try to create the table ‘Dossier_Financement’:

create table Dossier_Financement 
(
    ID_Reunion integer foreign key references Reunion(ID_Reunion),
    ID_Dossier integer foreign key references Dossier(ID_Dossier),
    Decision varchar(20),
    Motif text,
    Montant_Retenu decimal(6,2),/* montant accorder */
    Duree_Retenu smallint,/*nb jours accorder */
    Nom_Giac varchar(50) foreign key references GIAC(Nom_Giac),
    primary key(ID_Dossier,Nom_Giac,ID_Reunion)
)
GO

These are the two tables:

create table Reunion 
(
    ID_Reunion integer ,
    Date_Reunion datetime,
    ID_Membre integer,/*jquery*/
    Type_Reunion varchar(20),
    Nom_Giac varchar(50),
    foreign key(ID_Membre,Nom_Giac) references Membre(ID_Membre,Nom_Giac),
    primary key(ID_Reunion,Nom_Giac)
)
GO


create table Dossier_Financement 
(
    ID_Reunion integer foreign key references Reunion(ID_Reunion),
    ID_Dossier integer foreign key references Dossier(ID_Dossier),
    Decision varchar(20),
    Motif text,
    Montant_Retenu decimal(6,2),/* montant accorder */
    Duree_Retenu smallint,/*nb jours accorder */
    Nom_Giac varchar(50) foreign key references GIAC(Nom_Giac),
    primary key(ID_Dossier,Nom_Giac,ID_Reunion)
)
GO

The ‘Reunion’ execute normally without any problem but I get this error when trying to create the second table:

Msg 1776, Level 16, State 0, Line 1
There are no primary or candidate keys in the referenced table 'Reunion' that match the referencing column list in the foreign key 'FK__Dossier_F__ID_Re__5629CD9C'.
Msg 1750, Level 16, State 0, Line 1
Could not create constraint. See previous errors.

Answer 1

Depending upon the actual model needs/requirements, one solution is to reference the Key, which requires all parts (note that Nom_Giac is added to the FK definition):

create table Dossier_Financement 
(
    ...
    foreign key(ID_Reunion,Nom_Giac) references Reunion(ID_Reunion,Nom_Giac),
)

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Another solution, as per Mark M’s answer is to make the ID_Reunion column a Key (note that Nom_Giac is removed from the PK definition):

create table Reunion 
(
    ...
    primary key(ID_Reunion)
)

This will make ID_Reunion a Key (the Primary Key, in fact) which can then be referenced with foreign key references Reunion(ID_Reunion).

Happy coding!