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SQL two tables relation


I've got a problem with two tables which I thought is straight forward and turn out it's not. Table 1 (Word):

WordID - key
WordValue string
...

Table 2 (Sentence):

SentenceID - key
SentenceValue String
WordKey int

I need that one word has several sentences. So I set the relation in VS C# DataSet Designer. After I start the program I got the child table with red circles with exclamation marks and messages ForeignKeyConstraint WordSentence requires the child key value (30) to exist in the parent table. But I have several WordKey=30 and one WordId = 30. So as I understand I have a child with a key and the parent also has this value in ID field = 30 and 1 but don't have anything in a parent table although my structure looks like in Northwind database.


Solution

  • Thanks for answers. My problem was a bit silly cuz I needed the easiest way to deal with two tables in a database and wanted to present them with standard way C# and VS give (just carrying and dropping tables to a form and attach a navigator). So in my case I had two tables with a relationship 1 to many and needed so that when focus is on a record N of a parent table only some set of records could be seen in a child table. Instead I saw all of them in both parent and child tables. And when I set a relationship through a "Edit DataSet with Designer" I got an error.

    Now a solution to this problem: as it stated in the book "Beginning Microsoft Visual C# 2008" and many other online sources, you create a data connection with a DB and create a DataSet. Then you drag tables you need to a form. But if you want a correct dependence so only particular set of records was seen in a child table but not all of them you need to drag a subtable in the DataSource window in VS!!! Like

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