Can a table have two foreign keys?

Question

I have the following tables (Primary key in bold. Foreign key in Italic)

Customer table

• ID---Name---Balance---Account_Name---Account_Type

Account Category table

• Account_Type----Balance

Customer Detail table

• Account_Name---First_Name----Last_Name---Address

Can I have two foreign keys in the Customer table and how can I implement this in MySQL?

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Updated

I am developing a web based accounting system for a final project.

Account Category

Account Type--------------Balance

Assets
Liabilities
Equity
Expenses
Income

Asset

• Asset_ID-----Asset Name----Balance----Account Type

Receivable

• Receivable_ID-----Receivable Name-------Address--------Tel-----Asset_ID----Account Type

Receivable Account

• Transaction_ID----Description----Amount--- Balance----Receivable_ID----Asset_ID---Account Type

I drew the ER(Entity relationship) diagram using a software and when I specify the relationship it automatically added the multiple foreign keys as shown above. Is the design not sound enough?

Answer 1

The foreign keys in your schema (on Account_Name and Account_Type) do not require any special treatment or syntax. Just declare two separate foreign keys on the Customer table. They certainly don't constitute a composite key in any meaningful sense of the word.

There are numerous other problems with this schema, but I'll just point out that it isn't generally a good idea to build a primary key out of multiple unique columns, or columns in which one is functionally dependent on another. It appears that at least one of these cases applies to the ID and Name columns in the Customer table. This allows you to create two rows with the same ID (different name), which I'm guessing you don't want to allow.

Answer 2

Yes, MySQL allows this. You can have multiple foreign keys on the same table.

Get more details here FOREIGN KEY Constraints

Answer 3

create table Table1
(
  id varchar(2),
  name varchar(2),
  PRIMARY KEY (id)
)


Create table Table1_Addr
(
  addid varchar(2),
  Address varchar(2),
  PRIMARY KEY (addid)
)

Create table Table1_sal
(
  salid varchar(2),`enter code here`
  addid varchar(2),
  id varchar(2),
  PRIMARY KEY (salid),
  index(addid),
  index(id),
  FOREIGN KEY (addid) REFERENCES Table1_Addr(addid),
  FOREIGN KEY (id) REFERENCES Table1(id)
)