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Check foreign keys values

Hi all,
I have a probably trivial question, but I am not able to find an answer.
I have five foreign keys in a table to five different tables that represent different kinds of same entity.
I want to check that only one foreign key is set to a not null value per row.
How can I code this check?

Thank you very much.
Oct 14 '11 #1
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