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Re: SSMS 2008: Confusing/Incorrect Error Message Take 2

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Gene Wirchenko (genew@ocis.net) writes:
>      Drill down to Banking's Accounts table, right-click, and select
> Edit Top 200 Rows.  Move to "Main Account" in the ACName column,
> replace it with "Main", and press down-arrow.  The change should be
> accepted.
> 
>      Drill down to Banking's Subaccounts table, right-click, and
> select Edit Top 200 Rows.  Move to "Pocket S/A" in the SAName column,
> replace it with "Pocket", and press down-arrow.  BOOM!  WHY?

It seems that you have already resolved the problem, so I am not
digging into it. But a comment on the script:
 
> create table Subaccounts
>  (
>  SAUK nvarchar(4) unique,     -- arbitrary length
>  SAOrd int,
>  SAName nvarchar(40),     -- arbitrary length
>  SAInACUK nvarchar(4),     -- arbitrary length
>  foreign key (SAInACUK) references Accounts(ACUK)
>  )
 

I recommend that you always include an explicit NULL/NOT NULL definition.

-- 
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

Links for SQL Server Books Online:
SQL 2008: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/cc514207.aspx
SQL 2005: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/bb895970.aspx

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SSMS 2008: Confusing/Incorrect Error Message Take 2 Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-04-14 15:29 -0700
  Re: SSMS 2008: Confusing/Incorrect Error Message Take 2 Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-04-15 11:13 -0700
  Re: SSMS 2008: Confusing/Incorrect Error Message Take 2 Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> - 2011-04-15 23:33 +0200
    Re: SSMS 2008: Confusing/Incorrect Error Message Take 2 Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-04-16 21:18 -0700

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