Re: Tabe Relationship

X-Ftn-To: "john" <nospam_at_nospam.com>

Dana Mon, 10 Mar 2003 09:29:48 -0000, "john" <nospam_at_nospam.com> rece:

>I am creating a web site which will have different types of users:
>Administrators, clients and staff. Is it possible/good practice to have 3
>tables related to one table i.e.
>
>
> USER
> user_id (PK)
> |
> ____________|____________
> | | |
> | | |
>Administrator Client Staff
>admin_id(PK) client_id(PK) staff_id(PK)
>user_id(FK) user_id(FK) user_id(FK)
>
>Thanks in advance for any advice offered.

I prefer using one table for all users and assigning them different roles (either as a field in the table, or separate table with userID/roleID fields).

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Kresimir Kos

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