Re: Understanding Joins : Baffled

2004-09-05 Thread zzapper
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 15:47:26 -0400, wrote: >A. Any record in tbl_development can be associated with up to 8 URLs that >represent virtual tours of the dwelling types in that particular >development. >B. tbl_urldetails is a table acting as a "master list" of the virtual >tours you have ready to

Re: Understanding Joins : Baffled

2004-09-03 Thread SGreen
Let me see if I can summarize what I know so far: A. Any record in tbl_development can be associated with up to 8 URLs that represent virtual tours of the dwelling types in that particular development. B. tbl_urldetails is a table acting as a "master list" of the virtual tours you have ready to

Re: Understanding Joins : Baffled

2004-09-03 Thread zzapper
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 13:06:45 -0400, wrote: >I don't understand what do you mean by "trim out the irrelevant"? If >certain columns aren't important then why are they in your tables? I don't >need any data, only the structures. You do know that you don't need to >post to an actual NG to get y

Re: Understanding Joins : Baffled

2004-09-03 Thread Martin Gainty
c: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 1:06 PM Subject: Re: Understanding Joins : Baffled > I don't understand what do you mean by "trim out the irrelevant"? If > certain columns aren't important then why are they in your tables? I don't &

Re: Understanding Joins : Baffled

2004-09-03 Thread SGreen
I don't understand what do you mean by "trim out the irrelevant"? If certain columns aren't important then why are they in your tables? I don't need any data, only the structures. You do know that you don't need to post to an actual NG to get your message to the list, right?. You only need

Re: Understanding Joins : Baffled

2004-09-03 Thread SGreen
You will normally get better responses if you always CC the list in each of your replies (unless you are intentionally going off-list). Yes, it sounds like you are talking about a relationship to me, too. If the we had your existing table structures in front of us we could help you to understan

Re: Understanding Joins : Baffled

2004-09-03 Thread SGreen
You say you have a table that changes how many columns it has? Please post the results of: SHOW CREATE TABLE tbl_developent\G SHOW CREATE TABLE tbl_urldetails\G so I can see it too. :-D Actually, it sounds like you have a normalization problem. Posting those two table structures will give th

Understanding Joins : Baffled

2004-09-03 Thread zzapper
Hi, I have a main query which can reads a record tbl_development This has a varying number of the following fields IDurl1 IDurl2 ... IDurln The fields contain indexes into another table tbl_urldetails where each record contains details about each URL eg hyperlink, description Currently I prel