ks like we can pass some parameters to it too (like SEPARATOR)
>
> thanks,
> Mojtaba
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pass some parameters to it too (like SEPARATOR)
thanks,
Mojtaba
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Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 11:15 AM
Subject: Re: how to deal with a string of categories
May I suggest a design c
May I suggest a design change as a solution? I would suggest that you
should create a user/category table to replace your "catstr" field:
CREATE TABLE user_category (
user_Id int not null,
category_Code char(1) not null
UNIQUE (user_Id, category_Code)
)
There will be one record in the user_categ
You should never create multi-purpose fields that you will need to use
to reference other data, which is what you did here. The database can't
use an index because the "codes" are not in set positions.
You need to create a table for linking the categories with "mytable",
since you are trying to
Hi,
> I'd like to know how you guys write SQL command for this problem. there
are
> some categories which I give them "A", "B", ... and I have a string field
> (catstr) with 10 characters in "mytable" to keep selected categories in a
> record. when user selects "C", "G", "K", I keep "CGK" in "cats
Hi,
I'd like to know how you guys write SQL command for this problem. there are
some categories which I give them "A", "B", ... and I have a string field
(catstr) with 10 characters in "mytable" to keep selected categories in a
record. when user selects "C", "G", "K", I keep "CGK" in "catstr" fiel
