Multiple foreign keys?

Question

I\'ve got a table that is supposed to track days and costs for shipping product from one vendor to another. We (brilliantly :p) stored both the shipping vendors (FedEx, UPS) wit

Answer 1

Can you provide the definition of the VENDOR table

I figured it out. The VENDOR table was MyISAM... (edited your answer to tell me to make them both INNODB ;) )

(any reason not to just switch the VENDOR type over to INNODB?)

Answer 2

You defined the primary key twice. Try:

CREATE TABLE SHIPPING_GRID(  
    id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY COMMENT 'Unique ID for each row',  
    shipping_vendor_no INT(6) NOT NULL COMMENT 'Foreign key to VENDOR.no for the shipping vendor (vendors_type must be 3)',  
    start_vendor_no INT(6) NOT NULL COMMENT 'Foreign key to VENDOR.no for the vendor being shipped from',  
    end_vendor_no INT(6) NOT NULL COMMENT 'Foreign key to the VENDOR.no for the vendor being shipped to',  
    shipment_duration INT(1) DEFAULT 1 COMMENT 'Duration in whole days shipment will take',  
    price FLOAT(5,5) NOT NULL COMMENT 'Price in US dollars per shipment lbs (down to 5 decimal places)',  
    is_flat_rate TINYINT(1) DEFAULT 0 COMMENT '1 if is flat rate regardless of weight, 0 if price is by lbs',  
    INDEX (shipping_vendor_no),  
    INDEX (start_vendor_no),  
    INDEX (end_vendor_no),  
    FOREIGN KEY (shipping_vendor_no) REFERENCES VENDOR (no),  
    FOREIGN KEY (start_vendor_no) REFERENCES VENDOR (no),  
    FOREIGN KEY (end_vendor_no) REFERENCES VENDOR (no)  
) TYPE = INNODB;

The VENDOR primary key must be INT(6), and both tables must be of type InnoDB.

Answer 3

I ran the code here, and the error message showed (and it is right!) that you are setting id field twice as primary key.