you need a join table between the two tables. It would contain the primary
keys of both tables. This way for any given staffID, you could have 0-n
records that contain staffId & subjectTitles_id.
To get all the subjectTitles for a given staff you would
Select * from staff_subjectTitles where staffId = <thePersonToLookFor>;
you can use where clauses to join in the Staff and SubjectTitles tables to
that select as well to gather them all into one select.
Cal
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From: Mark Worsdall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 2:22 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ADVICE: Best way to store multi values
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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