Adding foreign key to existing table gives error 1050 table already exists

Question

I\'ve a table CustomizationSet with the columns:

customization_set_guid (which is a non-nullable guid and also the primary key)
creator_account_guid
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Answer 1

When using MysqlWorkbench the error is misleading. My issue was that I was trying to add a foreign key constraint on table that already had rows and one of the rows was empty (did not meet the FK constraint. Instead of complaining that constraint will fail if applied, MysqlWorkbench reported that table exists.

Removing the offending row fixed (or adding and constraint acceptable value to the field) solved the problem.