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Switching from One-to-Many to Many-to-Many structure

Thread began 4/25/2014 5:47 am by iainmacdonald331081 | Last modified 4/25/2014 9:13 am by Jason Byrnes | 458 views | 3 replies |

iainmacdonald331081

Switching from One-to-Many to Many-to-Many structure

I think I know what to do here, but just wanted to run it by to make sure I would be doing it correctly and not missing any tricks.

At the moment I have a One-to-Many structure:

tbl_Users
UserID (PK)
User
etc

tbl_Lodges
LodgeID (PK)
Lodge
UserID
etc

So any given Lodge has a single User associated, and that User can log in to an admin section and update the Lodge details.

We have increasingly found a need to allow multiple users to be able to log in and update these details, hence the switch to a many-to-many structure.

Am I right in thinking the way to do this is to create an interlinking table with the fields:

LodgeID
UserID

And the quickest way to create this table would just be to make a copy of the tbl_Lodges, delete all the fields other than LodgeID and UserID, and remove the PK from the UserID field?

One other question there - does the linking table need a third field to act as a Primary Key?

And lastly, in order to attach users to lodges would it just be a case of updating a two field form with the fields UserID and LodgeID? That's what I assume, although it involves looking up the lodge and user, noting the IDs and then adding a new record to the linking table. But wondered if I'm missing a trick there and there might be a more intuitive way of associating users with lodges?

Hope that makes sense.

Thank you!

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

Yes, you need a 3rd table to act as the linking table.

you should have 3 fields:
lodgeuserID - primary key
lodgeuserUserID - relates to the tbl_Users.UserID
lodgeusersLodgeID - relates to tbl_Lodges.LodgeID

I Would not copy an existing table, I Would just use your MySQL GUI Tool to create the new table and define the columns.

you should look into the manage relation table tutorial:
http://www.webassist.com/tutorials/Manage-relational-tables

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iainmacdonald331081

Thanks Jason - whether or not the linking table needed a PK was something I wasn't sure of.

With copying the table that was really because there are already lots of records in the Lodges table with a UserID. But if the linking table needs a PK that maybe won't be such a good plan.

Will also have a look at that tutorial.

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

I neve like to copy tables, it seams like it should save time, but always ends up wasting it in creating bad data.

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