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QUESTION POSED ON: 02 February 2004
I have two tables, tableA with ID as a primary key and tableB which has two fields (apart from several other fields) that are IDs from tableA. Can I create a foreign key relationship between them? The basic relationship is one-to-many.

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Yes. In fact, this is quite common:

create table tableA
     ( ID     integer    not null 
     , AName  varchar(5) not null
     , constraint A_pk 
         primary key (ID)
     )
create table tableB
     ( AID1   integer  not null
     , AID2   integer  not null
     , Bstuff varchar(9) not null
     , constraint B_pk 
         primary key (AID1,AID2)
     , constraint B_fkA1 
         foreign key (AID1)
              references tableA (ID)
     , constraint B_fkA2 
         foreign key (AID2)
              references tableA (ID)
     )


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