Foreign keys , Database Management System

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Foreign Keys and NULL

Let us take the relation:                

DEPT

DEPT ID

DNAME

BUDGET

D1

Marketing

10M

D2

Development

12M

D3

Research

5M

 

EMP

EMP

ID

ENAME

DEPT

ID

SALARY

E1

Rahul

D1

40K

E2

Aparna

D1

42K

E3

Ankit

D2

30K

E4

Sangeeta

 

35K

Assume that Sangeeta is not assigned any section. In the EMP tuple corresponding to Sangeeta, thus, there is no genuine section number that can serve as the appropriate value for the DEPTID foreign key. Thus, one cannot verify BUDGET and DNAME for Sangeeta's department as those values are NULL. This may be actual circumstances where the person has newly joined and is undergoing training and will be allocated to a department only on finishing of the training. Thus, NULL in foreign key values might not be a logical error.

Thus, the foreign key definition may be redefined to conatin NULL as an acceptable value in the foreign key for which there is no require to find a matching tuple.

Is there any other constraint that may be applicable on the attribute values of the entities?

Yes, these constraints are mostly linked to the domain and termed as the domain constraints.


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