Chris and Jay: Thank you both very much for your comments; that solves it. I am not a trained database designer, but I have resources on normalization; I simply neglected to consult them, thinking that this was a SELECT problem, not a design problem. Your input was just what I was hoping for.
> The concept of core and other keywords is a bit arbitrary. > What is important (i.e. core) today might not be so tomorrow. > > Parsing comma separated lists in a single attribute is > likely to be a bother. > Generally, I would call this a bad idea. By most people's > thinking it also breaks First Normal Form. > > Besides, you can't do database operations on comma separated lists. > If you need a one-to-many (one pic to many keywords) then do it right > and build an actual one-to-many relationship between two tables. Craig Smith cr...@macscripter.net _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
