Re: Text field how to handle aliases

2004-10-19 Thread Eldo Skaria
Hi, For this only RDBMS came into being. You keep your master data in a table with relevent descriptions, codify the item. Use the code in other location. In qa web page always search against/show the full desc of what others require. Add a category like school/university/pre-matric etc. this coul

Re: Text field how to handle aliases

2004-10-19 Thread SGreen
Don't think "file" think "table"! ;-) CREATE TABLE universitysynonyms ( ID int auto_increment primary key, synonym varchar(40) not null, university_id int not null, UNIQUE(Synonym, university_id) ) Each time you run into something you don't have in your "universit

Text field how to handle aliases

2004-10-19 Thread Lewick, Taylor
I need help on the best way to handle a field that could have many different ways of naming something. For instance, school name Let's take Saint Joseph's University This could be Saint Joseph's Univeristy, U. of St. Joe, SJU, Univ. St. Joe, etc... In this case, I don't think I can always get w