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Not Null: Alter Table Add Constraint Foreign Key References

To create a database, alter a database name or delete a database using queries. To add or drop constraints like primary keys, foreign keys, defaults and checks. The document provides SQL statements to create a database and table, add a foreign key between two tables, add or drop default, check and foreign key constraints on an existing table.

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Not Null: Alter Table Add Constraint Foreign Key References

To create a database, alter a database name or delete a database using queries. To add or drop constraints like primary keys, foreign keys, defaults and checks. The document provides SQL statements to create a database and table, add a foreign key between two tables, add or drop default, check and foreign key constraints on an existing table.

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To Create the database using a query

Create database DatabaseName


To alter a database, once it's created
Alter database DatabaseName Modify Name = NewDatabaseName
Alternatively, you can also use system stored procedure
Execute sp_renameDB 'OldDatabaseName','NewDatabaseName'
To Delete or Drop a database
Drop Database DatabaseThatYouWantToDrop
Create Table tblGender
(ID int Not Null Primary Key,
Gender nvarchar(50))
To add a foreign key reference using a query
Alter table tblPerson
add constraint tblPerson_GenderId_FK FOREIGN KEY (GenderId) referencestblGender(ID)
The general formula is here
Alter table ForeignKeyTable add constraintForeignKeyTable_ForiegnKeyColumn_FK
FOREIGN KEY (ForiegnKeyColumn) references PrimaryKeyTable (PrimaryKeyColumn)
Altering an existing column to add a default constraint:
ALTER TABLE { TABLE_NAME }
ADD CONSTRAINT { CONSTRAINT_NAME }
DEFAULT { DEFAULT_VALUE } FOR { EXISTING_COLUMN_NAME }
Adding a new column, with default value, to an existing table:
ALTER TABLE { TABLE_NAME }
ADD { COLUMN_NAME } { DATA_TYPE } { NULL | NOT NULL }
CONSTRAINT { CONSTRAINT_NAME } DEFAULT { DEFAULT_VALUE }
The following command will add a default constraint, DF_tblPerson_GenderId.
ALTER TABLE tblPerson
ADD CONSTRAINT DF_tblPerson_GenderId
DEFAULT 1 FOR GenderId
The following check constraint, limits the age between ZERO and 150.
ALTER TABLE tblPerson
ADD CONSTRAINT CK_tblPerson_Age CHECK (Age > 0 AND Age < 150)
The general formula for adding check constraint in SQL Server:
ALTER TABLE { TABLE_NAME }
ADD CONSTRAINT { CONSTRAINT_NAME } CHECK ( BOOLEAN_EXPRESSION )
To drop the CHECK constraint:
ALTER TABLE tblPerson
DROP CONSTRAINT CK_tblPerson_Age

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