I would approach this by having a main people table (with a unique id of
course) and then create a second addresses table which uses the people Id key
as the foreign key to this table...then you can have multiple (more than two)
addresses for those users, you could add a season in the addresses to be able
to pull the correct one based on date
bastien> To: [email protected]> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 24 Oct
2007 09:06:29 -0400> Subject: [PHP-DB] Question about database design> >
********I sent this to the MySQL list but didn't receive any > response, My
apologies if you have already received this.> > > Hi Everyone,> > So having
learned my lesson with the last application, I am trying to> plan out the
addition of a feature to my database application.> Basically, some of my
customers go south for the winter ("Snow> Birds") what I would like to do is
have away of storing both their> addresses in the database, and have it so that
the people> administering the list can choose between wether they are up north
or> down south without having to erase the old address.> > For that I was
thinking creating a second table "SnowBirds" and list> their southern addresses
in there and then when the list admin clicks> on the edit button for their
name, it would also be able to pull up a> list of the the addresses stored and
associated with that person.> > I'm also considering adding a date range for
the addresses so that if> they know they'll be south from November to March it
will check the> date and switch between the record accordingly BEFORE exporting
to> excel.> > Now... I haven't really asked a question yet but gave some
background> into what I want to do. Sooooo... Here's the question, does anyone>
have any advice on the best way to do it? Am I right in thinking that> a second
table is required? Would it be called a Relational database?> Or have I missed
the terminology?> > Any help would be greatly appreciated!> > Thanks for
looking!> > ohhh... and in case it makes a difference it's MySQL 5.* and I'll
be> writing the stuff to access that database with php 5.> > --> > Jason Pruim>
Raoset Inc.> Technology Manager> MQC Specialist> 3251 132nd ave> Holland, MI,
49424> www.raoset.com> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> >
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