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Cardinality

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Objectives

 The participants will be able to :


 Define cardinality of Foreign Key Relationships.
 Discuss about the different Foreign Key Field Types.

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Cardinality

n : m
1 1

C C

CN
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Foreign Key Field Type

 Check Table: Students


 Foreign Key Table: Course Enrolment

Course Enrolment

STUDENT_ID
?

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Foreign Key Type: Key Fields or Key Field Candidates

Faculty Course

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Foreign Key Type: Key Fields of a Text Table

T005
(Country Codes)

T005T
(Country descriptions)

(T002)
(Language Codes)

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Foreign Key Type: Non-Key Field Candidates

Professor

Course

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Demonstration

 Creation of few custom tables and establishing foreign key relationship between
them with Cardinality specified.

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Practice

 Creation of few custom tables and establishing foreign key relationship between
them with Cardinality specified.

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Summary

 When creating foreign key relationships, you should always specify the cardinality
of that relationship.
 In addition to specifying the cardinality of a foreign key relationship, you should
also specify the foreign key field type. The foreign key field type indicates
whether the foreign key fields belong to the primary key (or a candidate key) of
the foreign key table.

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Questions

 What is Cardinality ?
 What are the different Foreign key field types ?

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