Re: FW: Relationships in Mysql

2003-07-25 Thread Write a Friend
Nils, Thanks. I will code accordingly. Carlos > > Hi Carlos, > > I believe that would have to be 2 separated steps. > > 1) creating the value in the primary key and > 2) creating the foreign key value > > However you can use UNION to write both statements in one go. > > Best regards > > Ni

Re: FW: Relationships in Mysql

2003-07-25 Thread Nils Valentin
Hi Carlos, I believe that would have to be 2 separated steps. 1) creating the value in the primary key and 2) creating the foreign key value However you can use UNION to write both statements in one go. Best regards Nils Valentin Tokyo/Japan 2003年 7月 26日 土曜日 05:20、Write a Friend さんは書きました: >

Re: FW: Relationships in Mysql

2003-07-25 Thread Write a Friend
I am a newbie to db. I have a few tables, one that I define the primary key. CREATE TABLE member ( memid INT(6) UNSIGNED ZEROFILL DEFAULT '002000' NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, last VARCHAR(20) DEFAULT '' NOT NULL, first VARCHAR(20) DEFAULT '

Re: Relationships in Mysql

2003-07-25 Thread eli
el [DATE], [NAME] en [ADDRESS] escribió: Thank you for your help and for the lesson. Eli > I would just add a few words to Nils' excellent reply: > > In the most general sense, a foreign key is just a primary > key value that occurs outside of its native table (i.e. in > a "foreign" table, get

Re: FW: Relationships in Mysql

2003-07-24 Thread John Hicks
I would just add a few words to Nils' excellent reply: In the most general sense, a foreign key is just a primary key value that occurs outside of its native table (i.e. in a "foreign" table, get it?) in order to point to the record in its native table with that value as its primary key. You c

Re: FW: Relationships in Mysql

2003-07-24 Thread Nils Valentin
Hi Eli, The short answer is .. you create relationships between tables by creating foreign keys and primary keys. However, you might not even need them ;-) - I explain below. Foreign keys and primary keys are used to create relations between tables. Using them will bind you to some rules whic

FW: Relationships in Mysql

2003-07-24 Thread eli
Hi, Can anyone explain me how to create relationships between tables in Mysql? For making some kind of functions like joins, it is indispensable to have relationships defined? Thanks in advanced. eli -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubsc

Re: Another Defining Relationships in MySQL Question

2002-11-08 Thread Michael T. Babcock
tmb wrote: In MS Access you define relationships between Key ID fields by dragging a line on the screen from the parent table to the child table. Read up on referential integrity and InnoDB tables in the online docs at http://www.mysql.com/doc/en -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd

Another Defining Relationships in MySQL Question

2002-11-08 Thread tmb
In MS Access you define relationships between Key ID fields by dragging a line on the screen from the parent table to the child table. So, if you are enforcing "referential integrity" you can not delete data that is referred to by another table or mess up the basic db structure... (think I have th