Re: [SQL] Design Question

Thanks, will do....

On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, Rich Shepard wrote:

> On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, Andy Lewis wrote:
> 
> > Lets say that I have a DB that I am using to save address info on
> > different brokers. Broker name, address, city, state, zip
> > 
> > Some brokers have representation in different states.
> > 
> > How would I be able to save that info so that it can be later selected by
> > users looking for a broker in a certain state(s)?
> > 
> > What type of field/table/DB could I save that in for easy reference?
> 
> Andy,
> 
>   I suggest that you buy (or borrow from a library) a book on relational
> data base design. To give you the simple answer to your question: have one
> table for the broker's name and identification and a separate table for
> their addresses. It's called a many-to-one structure and is created by
> normalizing the data.
> 
> Rich
> 
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