I thought that it was good db design to have no repeating data in your db but to use a relationship instead? Jord On Tuesday 27 March 2001 14:42, you wrote: > Jord, > > I don't see quite why you should want to use two tables, you can easily put > all the information in one table and have one column which holds the > filetype. There's (almost) no speed profit to put the information in > several tables. > > Have fun, > Maarten Verheijen > > >>> Jordan Elver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 27-03-01 13:37 >>> > > Hi, > I want to keep filenames of different kinds of media(real sudio, qt, mp3) > for articles in a db table. Would it be best to store each kind of media in > a different table like one table for real audio, one for quicktime, one for > mp3. Or, would it better to store them all in the same table but with > another table telling me what kind of file it is? > > Like: > > media table > -------------------- > id | name | filename | type_id > > media types > -------------------- > type_id | name > > Any ideas folks? > > Cheers, > > Jord -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
