stop auto-creating FK's!!!!

Toad Data Modeler
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this is driving our development team mad - i’ve have a table “person” which contains the column “person_address_id”, i have a second table “address” which has a primary key of “address_id”.

All i want to do is create a relationship that lets me map the column address_id to person_address_id, and NOT auto create a column address_id as a foreign key in the table person.

This “trying to be too clever feature” of the software is rendering TDM v3 useless for our needs.

Any help???

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Hi,

As soon as you create a relationship, FK attribute is created in child table automatically - this is how it works in TDM.
Feel free to use the Foreign Keys Mapping feature.

See the details at: Help menu | Manual | Physical Data Model | Creating ERD | Understanding of Foreign Keys topic where instructions + screenshots on how to map the keys are included.

If you have any questions, please write me back.
Thanks.

Regards,

Vladka