Hello All, First, Let me start by saying this question has most likely been asked before, but I did a search in the archive and was unable to come up with any results. I think this is because I am not quite sure what this is called. So, I do apologize, but hopefully this can be answered quickly and will really help me out.
This is more of a General SQL question, regarding sytanx. I have 3 table I am going to be working on. contact, address and state. state contains 51 states (Washington D.C is listed as a state) each with their unique ID. Contact contains a persons first and last name, as well as their own ID. Address contains their street name, the city, state and a column called contactid for the id of the person who lives there. State is a foreign key for the state table and contactid is a foreign key for the contact's id. Now here is what I want to do: I want to insert a person into the contact database and then insert their address into the address table, but I want to somehow put the ID of the state, and the id of the contact into the fields without actually having to know the values. Like rather then having to look up New York and then insert 033, can I just somehow put "New York"? Is this possible to do? Many thanks -Steven mysql, sql, query --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
