In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Martijn Tonies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> That is ONE way to store a tree structure :-)

> Another would be:

> ITEMS
> (ItemID INT AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL,
> other stuff)

> ITEM_PARENT
> (ItemID int,
>  ParentID int
> primary key (ItemID, ParentID)
> )


> I prefer the latter.

The latter is not a tree, but a directed graph.


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