Re: Multiple entries in a field

On 9 Aug 2000 09:52:00 GMT, hidders_at_wsinis12.win.tue.nl (Jan Hidders) wrote:

>On Tue, 08 Aug 2000 22:33:29 GMT, Rohit <rohitd_at_flashmail.com> wrote:
 

>Roughly it works like this: For all the data items that you want to store you
>have to ask yourself the following questions:
>
>1. Does it describe the property of a thing and of what thing? E.g. the
> player name is a property of a a player and the founding date is a
> property of a team.
>
>2. Does it describe the property of a relationship between things and of
> what relationship? E.g. the year-of-joining is a property of the
> plays-for relationionship between player and team.
>
>Then, for every type of thing and every type of relationship that you have
>found you create a separate table that describes all the properties of this
>thing or relationship. In your example this would be tables PLAYER(Name, Age),
>PLAYES-FOR(Year-of-joining) and TEAM(Name, Founding-year).
>

I get all of this,and thanks a lot for posting that much,but maybe I'm dumb,I'm still not getting how this helps me with my original problem,which is to get the names of 2 or more players into a particular field.....?

Rohit.

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