On Thursday, November 28, 2002, at 08:06 AM, BobJ wrote:
You appear to be violating the "repeating value" rules of relationalNot only is it true that not many are born with it, but not many are even aware it exists! I say this only because I used mysql for a couple years before starting college this September, and after just a few weeks in my Relational DB Development 1 class, I found it amazing how much there is in the field that people just don't know about.
database. Multivalue databases (Pick and Pick like) support this concept
but they are rather uncommon now. You probably need to create a related
table. Actually, you might want to do a little study on the general idea of
relational databases. Not meaning to be negative here because nobody is
born with the knowledge.
It feels good to not blindly throw keys and such around, and to be able to understand normalization.
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Chris Garaffa
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