Hiya, Any help would be appreciated! Due to various hardware requirements, on our exiting server space is a problem not speed. I store a lot of details of members, and have worked out that I will save space by storing lastname's, firstname's etc in a seperate table.
e.g. lastname table is id and lastname field. firstname table is id and firstname field My members table then has a field called lastnameid, firstnameid etc. So I can do: SELECT firstname, lastname FROM members, firstname, lastname WHERE firstnameid=firstname.id AND lastnameid=lastname.id So as an extension I am whating to include middle names, so in the members table I have a collum called middlenameid, how do I do this with a SELECT? Thanks, Steve SQL cos I have to include it! --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php