[nycphp-talk] A tale of two tables...
Aaron Fischer
agfische at email.smith.edu
Fri Mar 11 15:46:19 EST 2005
> The first question is what kind of relationship are you trying to
> model here?
>
> Is it:
> - one-one - each host is matched to a single guest
>
Yes, it's one-one.
> If it is 1-1, then you would only need a column in the host table to
> hold the id of the matched guest, with a unique index to prevent
> multiple hosts being matched to the same guest. You could also do
> this in reverse (add a column to the guest table to hold the id of the
> matched host)
>
> Dan
<slaps forehead>
I do indeed have a unique index (in both tables). I'm a bit of a SQL
(joining) novice. I will create the column in one of the tables to
hold the unique id of the other.
That's really cool, simple and elegant, I love it.
Thanks Dan!
-Aaron
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