Recently I started using SQLite (as required for my study) and I came accross a couple of restrictions of SQLite and I was wondering: can't SQLite create foreign keys on the same table? E.g. this is my code:
CREATE TABLE Categories
(
name varchar(20),
parent_category varchar(20) NULL,
PRIMARY KEY(name),
FOREIGN KEY parent_category_fk(parent_category) REFERENCES Categories(name)
)
But it gives me an error for the foreign key when I try to execute the SQL in SQLiteStudio.
Does anyone know why this isn't working?
The problem is that you have the wrong syntax for the FK clause. It should be:
FOREIGN KEY (parent_category) REFERENCES Categories(name)
If you want to name the FK constraint, you do that with a prefix of the CONSTRAINT
keyword, like this:
CONSTRAINT parent_category_fk FOREIGN KEY (parent_category) REFERENCES Categories(name)
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