Primary Key from foreign keys

I have a table which has 3 foreign keys, two of which form the primary key.
I have: ID_Product, ID_Sale, ID_Buy, and also an attribute which tells if its a buy or a sale.
So, if a sale is made, the primary key should consist of ID_Product && ID_Sale, otherwise, it's ID_Product && ID_Buy.
Is there a way to do this in Oracle, and if there is, can you point me to where I can read about this?
thank you in advance

tashe,
This is the wrong forum for you question. Try posting here:
PL/SQL
I will say, however, that there are advantages to keeping your primary keys apart from your data - just populating them from a sequence. Also, you may be temped to enforce this via triggers, but read the following first:
http://tkyte.blogspot.com/2008/05/another-of-day.html
Not that you would have a mutating table problem, but the two table solution may help you. Really think the design through.
Regards,
Dan

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PRIMARY_PRODUCT_CATEGORY_ID VARCHAR2(20)
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How to transfer database table contain null values, primary key, and foreign key to the another database in same server. using INSERT method.

how to transfer database table contain null values, primary key, and foreign key to the another database in same server. using INSERT method. thanks

INSERT targetdb.dbo.tbl (col1, col2, col3, ...)
SELECT col1, col2, col3, ...
FROM sourcedb.dbo.tbl
Or what is your question really about? Since you talke about foreign keys etc, I suspect that you want to transfer the entire table definition, but you cannot do that with an INSERT statement.
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, [email protected]

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I have a question which was asked in an interview
Can a Primary key in a table also act as a foreign key in the same table ?
If yes than please provide a simple example
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See this illustration
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id int identity(1,1) not null primary key,
val varchar(100)
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id int not null primary key,
val varchar(100)
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( name char2(10),
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address varchar2(10)
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   pa_new_item_one                           varchar2,
   pa_new_item_two                           varchar2
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                                || '*** Item Two: '
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('EMAIL_TRIGGER','TEST_EMAIL');
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/

Hi Charles,
I've added a function one_a to your procedure. I have written it such a way that it should easily be moved into a package. Which you should really do; move your procedure and the new fnction into a package. Don't use stand alone stored procedures, they will become a night mare one day.
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   pa_new_fk_seq_no                          varchar2,
   pa_new_item_one                           varchar2,
   pa_new_item_two                           varchar2
as
         v_message      varchar2(4000);
         a              table_a%rowtype;
         function one_a(p_seq_no in varchar2)
         return table_a%rowtype
         is
            one_rec table_a%rowtype;
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            select table_a.*
              into one_rec
              from table_a
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        a := one_a(pa_new_fk_seq_no);
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<EMP>
<Empsch>
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<EmployeeID>12345</EmployeeID>
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<Address>
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java.sql.SQLException: user lacks privilege or object not found: EMPSCH.EMPSCHPK
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Thanks
Revanth

Thats obvious from the xml file contents you have given here. In this xml file You have four complex type. Two of them are employee and address. However the employee doesnot have any relation with address as you have not added the relationship. Thats why its failing. Its not the fault of ODI.
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XML Schema complexType Element
Thanks
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user9005175 wrote:
Hi!
I work on an application wich uses a shopping cart stored in a database. The shopping cart uses two tables:
CART: Holds information common for one shopping cart: the user it is connected to etc.
- Primary key: CART_ID
CART_ROW: One row in the cart, e.g. one new product to buy.
- Primary key: ROW_ID
- Foreign key: CART_ROW.CART_ID references CART.CART_ID
From the code the rows in the cart are collected per cart, as is modelled by the foreign key. There exists one more relationship, which we use in the code, but which is not modelled by a foreign key in the database. One row can be dependent on another row, which makes the other row a parent.
CART_ROW has a column PARENT_ID which references CART_ROW.ROW_ID.
Should we add a foreign key for PARENT_ID? Or are there any questions to consider when it is a foreign key to the same table?
I suggest to add foreign key it wont harm the performance (except while on insert when there would be validation for the foreign key). But it would prevent users to insert wrong/corrupt data either through code or directly by loggin in the database.
A while ago we added indexes, both on ROW_ID and on PARENT_ID. Could the index on PARENT_ID have been harmful, since there is no foreign key?
Index on parent_id would only be harmful if you do not make use of index after creating it (i.e. there is no query which make use of this index).
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