Koon Yue Lam, If you running your MySQL on Windows, you may try to use one of the reporting tools, like Crystal Report, to create your reports. Generally these tools allow to hide repetitive data in its reports
Mikhail Berman -----Original Message----- From: Koon Yue Lam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 1:34 PM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: DB design question Hi, here is the case: one student may have more than one address, and one student may have more than one phone number so the db would be: student ---------------- student_id name age address --------------- address_id student_id street_name phone_num ------------------ student_id num extension the key of 3 tables are student_id the problems is, when I want to query both student, address and phone num, the sql will be select * from student s, address a, phone_num n where s.student_id = a.sudent_id and s.student_id = n.student_id it won't provide a nice result as data of student are repeated in every row, address and phone_num's data are repeated in certain rows The output is not suitable for reporting and may I ask what is the better way of design to handle the above case ? any help would be apreciated Regards -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
