Re: Language dependent fields

Hi,

thanks, that works ok.
But has anybody some suggestions how this
behaves performance wise, if I have like 10 language dependent fields
and translation t1 till translation t10.

Volker

Renato De Giovanni wrote:
> 
> Maybe something like this:
> 
> CREATE VIEW locale_customer2 AS
> SELECT customer2.*, t1.tln_lng_id, t1.tln_text as text1, t2.tln_text as
> text2
> FROM customer, translation t1, translation t2
> WHERE t1.tln_id=cst_sometext_tln_id
> AND t2.tln_id=cst_sometext2_tln_id
> AND t1.tln_lng_id = t2.tln_lng_id;
> 
> HTH,
> --
> Renato
> Sao Paulo - SP - Brasil
> rdg@viafractal.com.br
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want the content of a field to be language dependent.
> >
> > Therfore we have a Translation table which looks like this:
> >
> > tln_id  tln_lng_id      tln_text
> > ---------------------------------
> > 1       de              hallo
> > 1       en              hello
> > 2       de              Herr
> > 2       en              Mister
> >
> > any language dependent fields reference to this table e.g.
> >
> > table customer
> >
> > cst_id  cst_sometext_tln_id
> > ----------------------------
> > 1000    1
> >
> > I've created a view to get the text:
> >
> > CREATE VIEW locale_customer AS
> > SELECT customer.*, tln_text, tln_lng_id FROM customer,translation
> > WHERE tln_id=cst_sometext_tln_id;
> >
> > this works fine for tables with only one language dependent field.
> > But if I have more than one field I've got a problem.
> >
> > e.g.
> >
> > table customer2
> >
> > cst_id  cst_sometext_tln_id     cst_sometext2_tln_id
> > ----------------------------------------------------
> > 1000    1                       2
> >
> > how can I create a proper view, to get both tln_text fields ??
> >
> > CREATE VIEW locale_customer2 AS
> > SELECT customer2.*, tln_text, tln_lng_id FROM customer,translation
> > WHERE tln_id=cst_sometext_tln_id OR tln_id=cst_sometext2_tln_id;
> > gives me all tln_text fields, but I can't distinguish between them.
> >
> > Any help appriciated.
> >
> > thanks
> > Volker