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Managing Relationships with Foreign Keys and Interleaved Tables

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Managing Relationships with Foreign Keys and Interleaved Tables

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SCBL004

Overview

In this lab, you create a database with multiple tables, and use both primary-foreign key contraints and interleaved tables to manage relationships.

Objectives

In this lab, you learn how to:

  • Create a relational database with proper primary keys and relationships optimized for Spanner.

Setup and Requirements

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Activate Cloud Shell

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  1. Click Activate Cloud Shell Activate Cloud Shell icon at the top of the Google Cloud console.

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  1. (Optional) You can list the active account name with this command:
gcloud auth list
  1. Click Authorize.

  2. Your output should now look like this:

Output:

ACTIVE: * ACCOUNT: student-01-xxxxxxxxxxxx@qwiklabs.net To set the active account, run: $ gcloud config set account `ACCOUNT`
  1. (Optional) You can list the project ID with this command:
gcloud config list project

Output:

[core] project = <project_ID>

Example output:

[core] project = qwiklabs-gcp-44776a13dea667a6 Note: For full documentation of gcloud, in Google Cloud, refer to the gcloud CLI overview guide.

Task 1. Creating an Orders database

  1. In previous labs, you have learned how to create Spanner instances, databases, and tables using the Google Cloud Console, the gcloud CLI, and Terraform. Using the method of your choice, create an instance in the region and a database meeting the following criteria.

  2. Note: The objective of this lab is for you to create the database and tables without detailed instructions, please see previous labs if you get stuck.

Database name: orders-db

Tables: Customer, Orders, OrderDetails

Customers table

Fields Data Type
CustomerID UUID
CompanyName STRING
Name STRING
Region STRING
Address STRING

Orders table

Fields Data Type
OrderID UUID
OrderDate DATE
CustomerID STRING

OrderDetails table

Fields Data Type
OrderID UUID
Product UUID
Qty INT64
Price FLOAT64

Primary keys

Ensure you create primary keys for each table.

Set default values for the primary keys using auto-generated UUIDs.

Relationships

Customers have 0 or more Orders

  • Use a primary-foreign key relationship between the Customers and Orders table.

Orders have 1 or more Details

  • Use an interleaved table for the relationship between the Orders and OrderDetails table.

Assistance

Below are sample DDL statements for the Pets database you used earlier. These statements can guide you in your database creation.

Owners table

CREATE TABLE Owners ( OwnerID STRING(36) NOT NULL DEFAULT (GENERATE_UUID()), OwnerName STRING(MAX) NOT NULL ) PRIMARY KEY (OwnerID);

Pets table with primary-foreign keys

CREATE TABLE Pets ( PetID STRING(36) NOT NULL DEFAULT (GENERATE_UUID()), OwnerID STRING(36) NOT NULL, PetType STRING(MAX) NOT NULL, PetName STRING(MAX) NOT NULL, Breed STRING(MAX) NOT NULL, CONSTRAINT FK_OwnerPet FOREIGN KEY (OwnerID) REFERENCES Owners (OwnerID), ) PRIMARY KEY (PetID);

Pets table interleaved with Owners

CREATE TABLE Pets ( OwnerID STRING(36) NOT NULL, PetID STRING(36) NOT NULL DEFAULT (GENERATE_UUID()), PetType STRING(MAX) NOT NULL, PetName STRING(MAX) NOT NULL, Breed STRING(MAX) NOT NULL ) PRIMARY KEY (OwnerID,PetID) , INTERLEAVE IN PARENT Owners ON DELETE CASCADE ;

Congratulations! You have created a database with multiple tables, and used both primary-foreign key contraints and interleaved tables to manage relationships.

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