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Old December 3rd, 2009, 02:12 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.tablesdbdesign
Steve Haack
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Default Relationship Question

Gina,
Thanks for the reply and information. The message that I get is: "Access
can't enforce the referential integrity for this relationship. Make sure the
fields you drag are PK fields or uniquely indexed and that the unique index
or PK is correctly set."

The thing is, I have tblPeople linked to another table on the ID field (but
only on link, not two) and it works perfectly.

I am going to look into your suggestion to see if that will work.

Thanks,
Steve

"Gina Whipp" wrote:

Steve,

Ummm, do you get a message? What happens when you try?

I'm going to make a suggestion here... I would have set up the table
differently...

tblPeople
pPeopleID (PK - Autonumber)
pBadgeID (Set to no duplicates but I can change when I like)

tblEvents
eEventID (PK)
eDirector (FK-linked to pPeopleID)
eManager (FK-linked to pPeopleID)

The above way allows you to set Referential Integrity without worrying about
Cascading Updates. A Primary Key should be used to relate records and you
should not care what it is. Okay, enough with my two cents worth!

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"Steve Haack" wrote in message
...
I have a field called tblPeople. It has an AutoNumber field as its PK, it
has
a field called ID which is a text field, indexed (no dupes).

I have another table called tblEvents. In tblEvents I have amongst others,
two fields, Manager and Director. I am trying to create relationships
between
tblEvents.Manager and tblPeople.ID, and also between tblEvents.Director
and
tblPeople.ID. I have done that.

What I can't do though, is set Referential Integrity with Cascading
Updates
so that if a person's ID changes (which it can, since it is an ID Badge
Number) it updates the records in tblEvents.

Any ideas?



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