Hi,
Thanks for all the advice, one question, the create a JOIN table, you
mean just create a table, is the naming convention for join tables
something like:-
join_jobTitles
In other words prefix all join tables with join_?
M.
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gerald L. Clark
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Assuming you have table staff with an id and name,
>and title with id and title,
>You create a join table.
>Staff_id Title_id
>1 1
>1 2
>2 1
>2 3
>
>Then:
>Select name,title
>FROM staff s , title t, jointable j
>WHERE s.id=j.staff_id AND j.title_id=t.id;
>
>
>
>Mark Worsdall wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a table called staff which currently has a column called
>> subjectTitles_id which is the type INTEGER.
>>
>> I have another table called subjectTitles which contains 12 subject
>> titles.
>>
>> So that is how a member of staff is assigned a subject.
>>
>> Trouble is I need to be able to assign a multiple number of subjects to
>> anyone member of staff.
>>
>> The method I thought to use was change staff.subjectTitles_id from
>> INTEGER type to CHAR type and store a string of CSV numbers which
>> correspond to the id's of the table subjectTitles, e.g.:-
>>
>> 1;2;7;10
>>
>> Is this the way?
>>
>> It seems quite ungraceful.
>>
>> M.
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