On 8/7/19 12:07 PM, stan wrote: > Have table that contains employee keys, paired up with work type keys > (both foreign keys) and a 3rd column that you enter a billing rate in. > Then I have a table where employees enter their work. I need to validate > that the employee, work type pair exists, before allowing the new record > to be inserted. > > Any thoughts as to good way to do this? > > Does the employee interactively specify the "work type" then some time-spent value?
Can the work-type be chosen from a drop-down generated by
select work_type from table where employee = <current user>
Otherwise you'll need a trigger on the insert into "enter their work" table. Sad thing here is the user has likely left the scene.
