Chris,

> In my capacity as a vet student, I'm trying to create a database of 
antibiotics.  The way that I have set it up so far is to have one main table 
listing the antibiotics versus their respective efficacies against the four 
major groups of bacteria.  Due to the way that my PHP frontend works, I have 
assigned a number to the efficacy - 1 being excellent and 5 being poor 
efficacy against the particular bacterium.  However, I now want to have a new 
table which converts numbers into words.  The problem is this, if I join the 
main table with the "translation" lookup table, the column names for each of 
the four categories in the main default to the column name in the lookup 
table and hence are all the same.  What SQL expression should I use to 
translate the cryptic numbers into plain english whilst preserving the column 
headings in the main table?

Please post your table definitions as SQL statements.


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-Josh Berkus
 Aglio Database Solutions
 San Francisco


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