RE: Database Design Question

2002-03-28 Thread Jienan Chen
In your situation (or any situation, IMHO), multi-value fields defeat the purpose of good database design. I think you are on the right track if you are willing to tolerate a little redundancy for the sake of simplicity (as a one-to-many relationship). If you really want to structure it as a many

RE: Adding a Column to an existing table

2002-03-27 Thread Jienan Chen
--- Steven Gearhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The easiest way to add a column is to get somebody > else to do it. > > Seriously, Use the "ALTER TABLE TableName ADD COLUMN > Company_id INT UNSIGNED > NULL" command. Yes. But also, the company_id field probably should be reset 'not null' AFTER t