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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