If a table object to
represents an SQL table
at some site, and an actual SQL table st
exists
at that site, then st
is called the target
of to
.
That is to say, st
is the target of to
when st
agrees with to
on the following points:
An SQL table st
is said to conform
to a table object to
when:
st
is to
's target,
st
has all the column names that to
's
value mapper uses,
to
's value
mapper expects,
NOT NULL
constraints have the settings
that to
's value mapper expects, and
st
does not have any other columns.