Tim,
Tuesday, October 15, 2002, 12:18:43 AM, you wrote:
TK> For example, I have a table ALPHA and a table BRAVO.
TK> ALPHA has a field called STRING1
TK> I want BRAVO to have a field whose contents would be those of ALPHA.STRING1
TK> How do I define this kind of field, so that the content of BRAVO.BLAHBLAH
TK> would always be ALPHA.STRING1 ?
Take a look at FOREIGN KEY CONSTRAINTS:
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/SEC447.html
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/ANSI_diff_Foreign_Keys.html
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/example-Foreign_keys.html
They are supported on InnoDB tables.
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