Foreign Key Not Populating with Primary Key Values

Question

I have searched for an answer but am not finding it. I have 2 tables. Both have an auto-generated PK. The PK from table 2 is an FK in table 1. Since they are both auto-gener

Answer 1

The foreign keys will not auto-populate, as it doesn't know what foreign key to use. You need to either insert the rows into the JobTitle_tbl table, then select the IDs back out (or use @@identity if using sql server)

select id from JobTitle_tbl where Job_title = ''

Another option would be to update your insert statements to include the primary key, although you'll have to allow identity inserts first.

SET IDENTITY_INSERT JobTitle_tbl ON
into the JobTitle_tbl (id, title) values (1, 'Manager')
SET IDENTITY_INSERT JobTitle_tbl OFF

In either case, you'll need to then update your first insert statements with the ID that you have.

insert into Employee_tbl (LastName, FirstName, JobID) values ('Smith', 'John', 1)