RE: [newbie] better practice techniques

2002-04-14 Thread Roger Baklund
* Daniel Jarrett > I'm just wondering.. > > say i have a members table as my main table in MYSQL.. > and in that table i have a field named month, that will be one of twelve > options. > > would it be better practice to have the month field linked to > another table > called months and have the m

[newbie] better practice techniques

2002-04-13 Thread Daniel Jarrett
I'm just wondering.. say i have a members table as my main table in MYSQL.. and in that table i have a field named month, that will be one of twelve options. would it be better practice to have the month field linked to another table called months and have the month table populated with the val