Re: [GENERAL] Schema Help Needed To Get Unstuck

2015-07-23 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 23 Jul 2015, Melvin Davidson wrote: Does this help? Melvin, Yep. After pondering David's response I recognized my error: I had the permit table as the center of the relationships when it should be the conditions table. As you wrote, permits, parameters, and locations all feed the

Re: [GENERAL] Schema Help Needed To Get Unstuck

2015-07-23 Thread Melvin Davidson
Does this help? CREATE TABLE permits ( permit_number bigint, ..., other_columns , ..., CONSTRAINT permits_pk PRIMARY KEY (permit_number) ); CREATE TABLE parameters ( permit_number bigint, parameter varchar(50), ..., other_columns , ..., CONSTRAINT parameters_pk PRIMARY KEY (permit_number, paramet

Re: [GENERAL] Schema Help Needed To Get Unstuck

2015-07-23 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 23 Jul 2015, David G. Johnston wrote: Conditions <- (Permit + Location + Parameter + Frequency + Temporal (from, until)) Monitoring <- (Condition + Event) While you may require additional modelling tables to support your user interface (i.e., picking valid combinations of PeLoPa when cr

Re: [GENERAL] Schema Help Needed To Get Unstuck

2015-07-23 Thread David G. Johnston
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > While designing the schema for a new application have become > high-centered > and stuck relating some many-to-many tables. Fresh eyes and suggestions are > needed on how to create many-to-many association tables among these five. > > Tab