i have entity customer and entity order, a customer can have 0 or more orders but an order can only have 1 customer.
I already tried a lot of things like making the foreign key unchecked at NN but I cant get a foreign key order at customer
EDIT: Using mySQL ERD workbench
Your customer
table will have a unique customer_id
column. In the MySQL world we often use autoincrementing primary keys for this kind of id
column.
Your order
table will have a customer_id
column that's a foreign key to customer.customer_id
.
This allows the order
table to have any number of rows relating to a particular customer_id
: none, one, or many. The foreign key relationship, when enforced--checked--simply prevents an order
from having a customer_id
value that references no valid customer.
Classic data design tools with their distinction between logical and physical design can drive ya nuts when you're trying to do easy stuff like this.
Pro tip if you name your id
columns the same way everywhere they're used, data design tools tend to work better, especially when "reverse-engineering" your tables. That's why I suggested column names like customer.customer_id
and order.customer_id
rather than customer.id
and order.customer_id
.