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Adding a foreign key to existing table

I have been trying to add these keys to my table but I get an error

ORA-01735: invalid ALTER TABLE option

My code:

ALTER TABLE Room
ADD FOREIGN KEY (RoomType_ID) REFERENCES RoomType(RoomType_ID), 
ADD FOREIGN KEY (Reservation_ID) REFERENCES Reservation(Reservation_ID), 
ADD FOREIGN KEY (Gust_ID) REFERENCES Gust(Gust_ID);

Tables

CREATE TABLE Gust ( Gust_ID INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, First_Name VARCHAR(50), Last_Name VARCHAR(50), Email VARCHAR(20), phone_number INT(10), Address VARCHAR(30) )

CREATE TABLE Reservation ( Reservation_ID INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, Start_Date Date, End_Date Date )

CREATE TABLE Room ( Room_ID INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, Price INT )

CREATE TABLE RoomType ( RoomType_ID INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, Class VARCHAR(10), ExtraPrice INT )
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Miss SHOOSH Avatar asked Sep 08 '26 06:09

Miss SHOOSH


1 Answers

ALTER statement for a multiple FOREIGN KEYS does not work.

Each CONSTRAINT should be added individually :

CREATE TABLE Gust ( Gust_ID INT PRIMARY KEY, First_Name VARCHAR(50), Last_Name VARCHAR(50), Email VARCHAR(20), phone_number INT, Address VARCHAR(30) );
CREATE TABLE Reservation ( Reservation_ID INT PRIMARY KEY, Start_Date Date, End_Date Date );
CREATE TABLE RoomType ( RoomType_ID INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, Class VARCHAR(10), ExtraPrice INT );

CREATE TABLE Room(Room_ID int PRIMARY KEY, Price INT, Reservation_ID int,Gust_ID int );

ALTER TABLE Room ADD FOREIGN KEY (Room_ID) REFERENCES RoomType(RoomType_ID);

ALTER TABLE Room ADD FOREIGN KEY (Reservation_ID) REFERENCES Reservation(Reservation_ID); 
-- the table Room is assumed to have a column Reservation_ID 

ALTER TABLE Room ADD FOREIGN KEY (Gust_ID) REFERENCES Gust(Gust_ID);
    -- the table Room is assumed to have a column Gust_ID

If System-generated constraint name not to be wanted, then using these ;

ALTER TABLE Room ADD CONSTRAINT fk_RoomType_ID FOREIGN KEY (Room_ID) 
                                               REFERENCES RoomType(RoomType_ID);

ALTER TABLE Room ADD CONSTRAINT fk_Reservation_ID FOREIGN KEY (Reservation_ID) 
                                                REFERENCES Reservation(Reservation_ID); 

ALTER TABLE Room ADD CONSTRAINT fk_Gust_ID FOREIGN KEY (Gust_ID) 
                                           REFERENCES Gust(Gust_ID);

may be preferred.

P.S. :

  • Do Not Use NOT NULL with PRIMARY KEY, PRIMARY KEY already includes NOT NULL.
  • The length can not be defined for an INT column.
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Barbaros Özhan Avatar answered Sep 12 '26 11:09

Barbaros Özhan