RE: Database won't accept null foreign key
RE: Database won't accept null foreign key
- Subject: RE: Database won't accept null foreign key
- From: "Albert Jagnow" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 16:48:08 -0500
- Priority: normal
- Thread-topic: Database won't accept null foreign key
That is correct the column is defined as NOT NULL. My problem is that I
can't make any changes to the database. I am not the administrator of
the DB, and the people who do administer it say that the column can not
be set to allow null values because it will break some really old AS/400
RPG programs that do not know how to deal with null data, or something
bizarre like that. As much as I would like to change the DB to work as
it should I am unable to do so. This means that I need to get WO to
work with the DB as is however much of a pain as that will be. It may
be just a matter of working with the relationships totally manually
instead of having WO try and set/fetch them automatically. In other
words I won't define a relationship in WO and just fetch the other data
in code if a relationship exists. I was hoping maybe someone had been
in this situation before and had a more elegant solution.
--Albert
-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Hill [mailto:email@hidden]
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 4:25 PM
To: Albert Jagnow
Cc: email@hidden
Subject: Re: Database won't accept null foreign key
It sounds like the FK column is defined as NOT NULL. Can you just
drop that constraint, or recreate the table without it?
Chuck
Albert Jagnow wrote:
> I am working with a database that for whatever reason won't allow a
> foreign key to be null if the relationship does not exist. I am
unable
> to make any changes to the database setup. In this database table A
may
> have an optional one-one relationship with table B. If there is not
> relationship or I delete a relationship, WO wants to set the foreign
key
> in table A for table B to null. The database won't allow the foreign
> key column of table A to be null it wants it to be 0. Is there an
easy
> trick to get WO to generate 0 instead of null for that key if the
> relationship does not exist?
>
> --Albert
>
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