I would do it like this:

Job table
With JobID

INDUSTRIES table
With IndustryID

And table (Table Name)
With JobID And IndustryID

Then you can create a view with the three tables

This way a job can belong to many Industries and viceversa.

Gustavo


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Subject: [CFTALKTor] stumped on SQL


> Hi all,
>
> Hoping someone can help me out here with a more complex SQL query...
>
> I'm sure it's not that hard but I'm just stumped...
>
> I have normalized the database for the following in order to save room
> in the JOBs table:
>
> JOBS table
> - contains 3 columns with the primary ID of an industry:
> Industry - IndustryID from INDUSTRIES table
> Industry2 - another IndustryID from INDUSTRIES table
> Industry3 - yet another IndustryID from INDUSTRIES table
>
> INDUSTRIES
> IndustryID - primary key - integer
> IndustryName - text value
>
> Now, of course, when I pull a query, I want to set up the query to  show
> the IndustryName which is text, instead of the integer.
>
> When there was only one Industry column in the Jobs table, that was
> fine, I could do a simple table join...  but now that I have 3 separate
> Industry columns, how do I set up the query to have the extra text
> IndustryName values?
>
> help help help???
>
> thanks!
> carina
>
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