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How to refer primary key as Foreign to various table in MySQL?
Following is the syntax −
alter table yourSecondTableName add constraint `yourConstraintName` foreign key(`yourSecondTableNamePrimaryKey`) references yourFirstTableName(yourFirstTablePrimaryKeyColumnName);
To understand the above syntax, let us first create a table −
mysql> create table demo65 −> ( −> id int not null primary key, −> name varchar(20) −> ); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.57 sec)
Following is the query to create second table −
mysql> create table demo66 −> ( −> user_id int not null primary key, −> address varchar(200) −> ); Query OK, 0 rows affected (1.80 sec)
Following is the query to refer primary key as a foreign key −
mysql> alter table demo66 −> add constraint `id_fk` −> foreign key(`user_id`) −> references demo65(id); Query OK, 0 rows affected (3.76 sec) Records: 0 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0
Let us check the overall description of the table using SHOW CREATE TABLE command. Following is the query −
mysql> show create table demo66;
This will produce the following output −
+--------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Table | Create Table +--------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | demo66 | CREATE TABLE `demo66` ( `user_id` int NOT NULL, `address` varchar(200) DEFAULT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`user_id`), CONSTRAINT `id_fk` FOREIGN KEY (`user_id`) REFERENCES `demo65` (`id`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci | +--------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
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