RE: Primary and Foreign Keys (Follow Up)

2005-06-15 Thread George Sexton
Kuhn > Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: Re: Primary and Foreign Keys (Follow Up) > > Hello. I appreciate your input. To clarify, I will provide you with an > example: > > I have a table called business and another one called > food_business. The > field business_id is a pr

Re: Primary and Foreign Keys (Follow Up)

2005-06-15 Thread Asad Habib
Hello. I appreciate your input. To clarify, I will provide you with an example: I have a table called business and another one called food_business. The field business_id is a primary key of table business and a foreign key of table food_business. In this case, the foreign key is unique and althou

Re: Primary and Foreign Keys (Follow Up)

2005-06-15 Thread Stefan Kuhn
If your FK really is unique, you don't need two tables. Example First table Second Table ID FK 1 1 2 2 3 3 ... So you can make this one table. On other words, it would be a one-to-one relation. And this would be one table. Only with a one-