There are so many problems with foreign key constraints that we don't know where to start: Foreign key constraints make life very complicated, because the foreign key definitions must be stored in a ...

Foreign key 'geneassay_fk' references invalid column 'geneassay' in referencing table 'b_SequencingData_seq'. Msg 1750, Level 16, State 0, Line 43 Could not create constraint.

A foreign key integrity constraint links the data values of one or more variables in its data file to those of the variables specified in a primary key, and controls the action that can be taken when ...

Can you do a foreign key within a single table, though? I've only ever seen foreign key constraints tying a field in one table to a field in another table.