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Add Foreign Key to existing table

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frgtv10
1 month ago
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I want to add a Foreign Key to a table called "katalog". ALTER TABLE katalog ADD CONSTRAINT `fk_katalog_sprache` FOREIGN KEY (`Sprache`) REFERENCES `Sprache` (`ID`) ON DELETE SET NULL ON UPDATE SET NULL; When I try to do this, I get this error message: > Error Code: 1005. Can't create table 'mytable.#sql-7fb1_7d3a' (errno: 150) Error in INNODB Status: > 120405 14:02:57 Error in foreign key constraint of table > mytable.#sql-7fb1_7d3a: FOREIGN KEY (`Sprache`) REFERENCES `Sprache` (`ID`) ON DELETE SET NULL ON UPDATE SET NULL: Cannot resolve table name close to: (`ID`) ON DELETE SET NULL ON UPDATE SET NULL When i use this query it works, but with wrong "on delete" action: ALTER TABLE `katalog` ADD FOREIGN KEY (`Sprache` ) REFERENCES `sprache` (`ID` ) Both tables are InnoDB and both fields are "INT(11) not null". I'm using MySQL 5.1.61. Trying to fire this ALTER Query with MySQL Workbench (newest) on a MacBook Pro. Table Create Statements: CREATE TABLE `katalog` ( `ID` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `Name` varchar(50) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL, `AnzahlSeiten` int(4) unsigned NOT NULL, `Sprache` int(11) NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`ID`), UNIQUE KEY `katalogname_uq` (`Name`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=12 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_unicode_ci ROW_FORMAT=DYNAMIC$$ CREATE TABLE `sprache` ( `ID` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `Bezeichnung` varchar(45) NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`ID`), UNIQUE KEY `Bezeichnung_UNIQUE` (`Bezeichnung`), KEY `ix_sprache_id` (`ID`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=3 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8

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