[thelist] SQL: database/table design

Tab Alleman Tab.Alleman at MetroGuide.com
Mon Jun 7 10:18:15 CDT 2004


Colin Gremillion wrote:

> Anyway, my manager hated this idea, and suggested that
> I make a new table, where each event-speaker
> relationship would have a record. So I now have this
> table with three fields: "SpeakerID" (linked to
> "speakers"), "EventID" (linked to "seminar") and
> "SpeakerType" which says if they're "primary" or
> "secondary".

This is exactly how I would have handled it as well; it is the
recommended approach in all the books I've read.


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