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SQL Server 2014 Development Essentials
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SQL Server 2014 Development Essentials

by Basit A. Masood-Al-Farooq
July 2014
Intermediate to advanced
214 pages
4h 47m
English
Packt Publishing
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Relationships

Relationships identify associations between the data stored in different tables. Entities relate to other entities in a variety of ways. Table relationships come in several forms, listed as follows:

  • A one-to-one relationship
  • A one-to-many relationship
  • A many-to-many relationship

A one-to-one relationship

A one-to-one relationship represents a relationship between entities in which one occurrence of data is related to one and only one occurrence of data in the related entity. For example, every employee should have a payroll record, but only one payroll record. Have a look at the following diagram to get a better understanding of one-to-one relationships:

A one-to-many relationship

A one-to-many relationship seems to be the most common relationship ...

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