* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060223 09:09]: > Tim Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 02/23/2006 12:26:35 PM: > > I need the most efficient way to do this: examples, keywords, and > > URLs to relevant documentation are all welcome. <....> > First off, columns can either be numeric or character-based not both. You > can store arrangements of the characters "0" through "9" in a > character-based field but those are not numbers, they are strings that > look like numbers. Of course. Didn't mean to imply other wish.
> Your description makes it sound like you have a table that has data in a > column called 'city' that looks like: > > Atlanta > Boston > 15 > 10 > 24 > Paris > Rome > 215 > Tokyo > > or am I mistaken? You got it. > Back to your direct question: How you "link" two tables is called > "joining". There are tons of examples and tutorials of how to join tables. > One of my favorites is Deliberately left out an inquery about "join" to encourage possibly other suggestions. :-) > http://sqlzoo.net/ > I also recommend you read this article about normalization: > http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/intro-to-normalization.html Those are the links that I needed. Getting up to speed on 'join is my solution... Thanks (time to do my homework) tim -- Tim Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alaska-internet-solutions.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
