On Mon, 2012-04-16 at 09:33 +0200, Michael Jenny wrote:
> [snip]
> 
> >
> > I'm fairly sure that in most cases, and in your case, you should really
> > have an intermediate table, because, in your example, not just one
> > person can have an iPhone.
> >
> 
> Absolutely. That example was not really representative.
> 
> > For instance, this uses an invoice lines table, which has both an
> > Invoice ID value and a Product ID value. You can then use a regular
> > choices drop-down:
> > http://www.glom.org/wiki/index.php?title=Screenshots#The_Details_View_-_related_records
> 
> Yes, that is for m:n relations. An intermediary table is necessary,
> because the foreign object is shareable among peer records. But as you
> said, the question is if there are *that* many real world examples,
> where the related object is not shareable.

As a start, it would be interesting to know of one real world example.


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Murray Cumming
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