Re: relations between tables

2003-01-12 Thread Ryan McDougall
--- Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I know and how I understand it, the relationships are basically all in your head... You just have to coordinate it in your queries and other functions This is not true. Fot type innodb tables, you can define REFERENCES using ON DELETE

Re: relations between tables

2003-01-11 Thread Adolfo Bello
As far as I know and how I understand it, the relationships are basically all in your head... You just have to coordinate it in your queries and other functions This is not true. Fot type innodb tables, you can define REFERENCES using ON DELETE (CASCADE|RESTRICT) and/or ON UPDATE CASCADE

Re: relations between tables

2003-01-10 Thread Michael T. Babcock
Octavian Rasnita wrote: Is MySQL able (like MS Access) to define permanent relations between tables? For example, I want to define a master - child relation between 2 tables so when deleting some entries from the master table to automaticly delete the entries from the details table without

Re: relations between tables

2003-01-10 Thread Ryan McDougall
--- Octavian Rasnita [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Is MySQL able (like MS Access) to define permanent relations between tables? For example, I want to define a master - child relation between 2 tables so when deleting some entries from the master table to automaticly delete the entries

Re: relations between tables

2003-01-10 Thread Zak Greant
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 04:54:14PM +0200, Octavian Rasnita wrote: Hi all, Is MySQL able (like MS Access) to define permanent relations between tables? For example, I want to define a master - child relation between 2 tables so when deleting some entries from the master table to automaticly

Re: Relations between tables?

2001-07-04 Thread John Meyer
On Wed, 04 Jul 2001, Mohan Khurana wrote: database enthusiasts, I'm fairly new to database administration and development, I'm currently still learning about features of databases so that I can ensure that my design for the database that I create will be correct. I will be storing general

Re: Relations between tables?

2001-07-04 Thread Joe Taraba
Mohan; I'm also new to this database administration and development. There are some excellent tutorials at Devshed.com. Below is a link to the tutorial on Database Normalization, I think this will give you some answers to your query: http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/MySQL/Normal/ Joe At