Identifying Relationships

[unknown]

I'm used to other tools that make it easy to differentiate
between identifying and non-identifying relationships. PD
10.0 does not seem to have that facility. It seems that I
have to draw the relationship lines, migrate the FKs, and
then mark the FK columns as PK for an identifying
relationship.
Am I doing something wrong?

[unknown]

PowerDesigner calls an identifying relationship a "dependent relationship".
Draw the line between the entities.
Double-click the relationship line.
Click the "Detail" tab.
Check the "Dependent" checkbox.
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Mike Nicewarner [TeamSybase]
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Post by unknown
I'm used to other tools that make it easy to differentiate
between identifying and non-identifying relationships. PD
10.0 does not seem to have that facility. It seems that I
have to draw the relationship lines, migrate the FKs, and
then mark the FK columns as PK for an identifying
relationship.
Am I doing something wrong?

[Karel van der Walt]

It may be worth pointing out that this is also PD Conceptual model's way of
dealing sc. 'weak' entities of
Chen style ER modelling.