Specifying Whether to Generate a Referential Integrity Constraint Based on an Association

While creating an association with the Association Wizard or editing an association with the Association Editor, in the Association Properties page, you specify whether to generate key constraints during forward generation.

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Description

Use Database Key Constraints

Select this box to create entity-level key constraints when generating tables with the Create Database Objects Tool. If you select this option, the appropriate database key constraint objects will be created to correctly represent the association settings you have selected. Note that deselecting this option does not remove constraints that were already created.

 

 

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