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MySQL Workbench Tutorials
Pressing Tab or Enter again sets the focus on the Datatype drop-down list box with INT selected. Notice that a field has been
added to the table on the EER canvas.
Pressing Tab yet again and the focus shifts to adding a second column. Add a Description and a Customer_id column.
When you are finished, close the table editor, by clicking the X button on the top left of the table editor.
4.3.2. Create a Foreign Key
Select the table tool again and place another table on the canvas. Name this table invoice_item. Next click on the 1:n Non-
Identifying Relationship tool.
First click on the invoice_item table; notice that a red border indicates that this table is selected. Next click on the invoice
table. Doing this creates a foreign key in the invoice_item table, the table on the “many” side of the relationship. This relationship
between the two tables is shown graphically in crow's foot notation.
Revert to the default mouse pointer by clicking the arrow at the top of the vertical toolbar. Click on the invoice_item table and
select the FOREIGN KEYS tab.
Click in the FOREIGN KEY NAME text box. The referenced table should show in the REFERENCED TABLE column and the appropriate
column in the REFERENCED COLUMN column.
To delete the relationship between two tables, click on the line joining the tables and then press Ctrl Delete.
Experiment with the other tools on the vertical toolbar. Delete a relationship by selecting the eraser tool and clicking on the line
joining two tables. Create a view, add a text object, or add a layer.
Save your changes to a MySQL Workbench Models file (MWB) by choosing SAVE from the FILE menu or by using the keyboard
command Ctrl S.
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