Hibernate Generated Key And Foreign Key As Primary Key
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  • Aug 01, 2016 Introduction One of my readers asked me to help him map a Composite Primary Key using JPA and Hibernate. Because this is a recurrent question, I decided to write a blog post in which I describe this mapping is more detail. Domain Model A relational database composite key contains two or more columns which together for the primary key of a given table. In the diagram above, the employee table.

In the relational databases, a foreign key is a field or a column that is used to establish a link between two tables.

A foreign key constraint. Returns the referenced columns if the foreignkey does not refer to the primary key. String The prefix to use in generated.

In simple words you can say that, a foreign key in one table used to point primary key in another table. Generated value auto increment non primary keys.

Let us take an example to explain it:

Here are two tables first one is students table and second is orders table.

Here orders are given by students.

First table:

S_IdLastNameFirstNameCITY
1MAURYAAJEETALLAHABAD
2JAISWALRATANGHAZIABAD
3ARORASAUMYA MODINAGAR

Second table:

O_IdOrderNoS_Id
1995864652
2784665882
3223548463
4576986561

Here you see that 'S_Id' column in the 'Orders' table points to the 'S_Id' column in 'Students' table.

  • The 'S_Id' column in the 'Students' table is the PRIMARY KEY in the 'Students' table.
  • The 'S_Id' column in the 'Orders' table is a FOREIGN KEY in the 'Orders' table.

The foreign key constraint is generally prevents action that destroy links between tables.

It also prevents invalid data to enter in foreign key column.

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SQL FOREIGN KEY constraint ON CREATE TABLE:

(Defining a foreign key constraint on single column)

To create a foreign key on the 'S_Id' column when the 'Orders' table is created:

MySQL:

Primary key

SQL Server /Oracle / MS Access:

SQL FOREIGN KEY constraint for ALTER TABLE:

If the Order table is already created and you want to create a FOREIGN KEY constraint on the 'S_Id' column, you should write the following syntax:

Defining a foreign key constraint on single column:

MySQL / SQL Server / Oracle / MS Access:

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DROP SYNTAX for FOREIGN KEY COSTRAINT:

If you want to drop a FOREIGN KEY constraint, use the following syntax:

MySQL:

SQL Server / Oracle / MS Access:

Difference between primary key and foreign key in SQL:

These are some important difference between primary key and foreign key in SQL-

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Primary key cannot be null on the other hand foreign key can be null.

Primary key is always unique while foreign key can be duplicated.

Primary key uniquely identify a record in a table while foreign key is a field in a table that is primary key in another table.

There is only one primary key in the table on the other hand we can have more than one foreign key in the table.

By default primary key adds a clustered index on the other hand foreign key does not automatically create an index, clustered or non-clustered. You must manually create an index for foreign key.

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