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BC030_App. 5.1

Cardinality

n   

n   

  m

  m

n   

n   

  m

  m

1

C

1

C

N

CN

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BC030_App. 5.2

Course Enrolment

STUDENT_ID

?

Foreign Key Field Type

Check Table:

Students

Foreign Key Table: Course Enrolment

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BC030_App. 5.3

Foreign Key Type:  

Key Fields or Key Field Candidates

Faculty

Course

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BC030_App. 5.4

Foreign Key Type:  

Key Fields of a Text Table

T005

(Country Codes)

(T002)

(Language Codes)

T005T

(Country descriptions)

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BC030_App. 5.5

Foreign Key Type:  

Non-Key Field Candidates

Course

Professor

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BC030_App. 5.6

Foreign Keys with Multiple Fields

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BC030_App. 5.7

Check Table

Check Table

Field-By-Field Assignment

Foreign Key Table

Foreign Key Table

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BC030_App. 5.8

Partial Foreign Keys

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BC030_App. 5.9

Constant Foreign Keys

BI

O

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BC030_App. 5.10

Changing the Field Assignment

Generic 
Checkbox

Constant Foreign 
Key

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BC030_App. 5.11

Performance of Search Helps

MCS

Employee #

Last Name

Department

MANDT EMPN

DEPT

LNAME

MANDT      EMPN      DEPT

INDEX

Search Help

Database Table


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