INSERT statement conflicted with the FOREIGN KEY c

Question

I am getting the following error. Could you please help me?

Msg 547, Level 16, State 0, Line 1
The INSERT statement conflicted with the FOREIGN KEY constraint "FK_Sup_Item_Sup_Item_Cat". The conflict occurred in database "dev_bo", table "dbo.Sup_Item_Cat". The statement has been terminated.

Code:

insert into sup_item (supplier_id, sup_item_id, name, sup_item_cat_id, 
                      status_code, last_modified_user_id, last_modified_timestamp, client_id)   
values (10162425, 10, 'jaiso', '123123',
        'a', '12', '2010-12-12', '1062425')

The last column client_id is causing the error. I tried to put the value which already exists in the dbo.Sup_Item_Cat into the column, corresponding to the sup_item.. but no joy :-(

Answer 1

Something I found was that all the fields have to match EXACTLY.

For example, sending 'cat dog' is not the same as sending 'catdog'.

What I did to troubleshoot this was to script out the FK code from the table I was inserting data into, take note of the "Foreign Key" that had the constraints (in my case there were 2) and make sure those 2 fields values matched EXACTLY as they were in the table that was throwing the FK Constraint error.

Once I fixed the 2 fields giving my problems, life was good!

If you need a better explanation, let me know.