Paul Ihrig wrote: > lets try this.... > productTable > pId, acList > 1.............3,5,7 > 2.............2,3 > > accessoryTable > aID, Products > 2.............1,2,3 > 3.............3,4 > 5.............2 > 7.............12,15, et.. > > the user basically selects aa aid from the accessories table > in the form of a check box. > and ascociates as many id's containg producta [which are accesories] to what > ever real product he wants.. > Normalized Database Design Best Pratice ProductTable-Accessory Join Product ID AccessoryID
1 3 1 5 1 7 2 2 2 3 AccessoryTable_Product Join 2 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 4 5 2 7 12 7 15 Are these some type of recipical thing? Are are these two different relationships? > this really does seem to work quite well. > For now. But if you have to maintain and enhance this application it will bite you in the behind someday. There is a very good reason that 50 years of database design has been working this way and I don't see it changing any time soon. > i was just trying to look through all the stabndard functions out there to > remove duplicates. > listToArray throws me a error converting simple something to something... Don't for an array it is not going to get you the consilidation you want. Just create a structure, loop over the valueList() result creating a node for each value then extrat the list. Structures can not have key duplicates they will get consilidated into one key. <cfset something = structNew()> <cfloop list="#valueList(aQuery.aColumn)#" index="value"> <cfset something[value] = true> </cfloop> <cfoutput>#structKeyList(something)#</cfoutput> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:305197 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
