put user_id in the contact table as a fk.
good luck.
"Michael P. Mehl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Hi!
>
> I've got two tables:
>
> CREATE TABLE users (
> user_id bigint(20) unsigned DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL,
> contact_id bigint(20) unsigned DEFAULT '0',
> user_login varchar(100) NOT NULL,
> PRIMARY KEY (user_id),
> UNIQUE UC_user_id (user_id)
> );
>
> CREATE TABLE contacts (
> contact_id bigint(20) unsigned DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL,
> contact_type varchar(100) NOT NULL,
> contact_value mediumtext,
> PRIMARY KEY (contact_id, contact_type),
> KEY idx_contacts (contact_id, contact_type)
> );
>
> In the table "users" the field "user_id" is a unique key for every user,
> "user_login" contains an identification string to login into an system.
> "contact_id" is the id of the entries in the table "contacts" which
> contain more information about the user.
>
> The special thing about this is that there are more than one entries in
> the table "contacts" for each user. For example to store the prename of
> a user, the following entry exists:
>
> INSERT INTO contacts VALUES ( '1', 'person/prename', 'Michael
> P.');
>
> At the SAME time there's a second entry in the table "contacts" for the
> user's surname:
>
> INSERT INTO contacts VALUES ( '1', 'person/surname', 'Mehl');
>
> The problem: How is it possible -- for example using temporary tables --
> to do a query whose result is a table with the fields "user_login" and
> two other fields "user_prename" and "user_surname" containing the
> corresponding values from the table "contacts".
>
> Best regards and thanks in advance...
> Michael
>
>
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