Re: Table Relation Design Question

2004-05-20 Thread Garth Webb
On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 07:13, Lewick, Taylor wrote: > Hi all, I am having a little trouble deciding how to relate some of my > tables together. > > > > I was wondering about creating one big lookup table to relate 3 or 4 > tables together, but wasn't sure if that was a good id, or should I have

Re: Table Relation Design Question

2004-05-20 Thread Sasha Pachev
To simplify, is It better to have many smaller lookup tables or one big one? Traylor: You can create three entity tables (organization,contact,event) + the relation tables (org_contact, org_event, contact_event). Small lookup tables are usually better, and also give you points for sticking to