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From
25/01/2001 10:50:43
Cindy Winegarden
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina, United States
 
 
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25/01/2001 09:44:59
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00467882
Message ID:
00468474
Views:
18
>>One way is to use another field with an autogenerated integer as the PK for this table and just use the Garment and >Service as FKs to their respective parent tables.
>
>Thanks C. W.
>service and garment are childs to the same parent table. it is a pricing table for drycleaning.
>Example: to find price for drycleaning, which is a service, for blouse which is a garment, you would issue "SEEK str(garment.recid)+str(service.recid)" in the parent to get the price to charge the customer.

In the pricing table, how is cleaning a skirt distinguished from hemming a skirt, or cleaning a blouse?

Here's a good design:
<b>Garments Table</b>
GarmentID, GarmentName
1          Blouse
2          Shirt
<b>Services Table</b>
ServiceID  ServiceName
1          Cleaning
2          Hemming
3          Wash Dry Fold
<b>Pricing Table</b> (This is a many-to-many table)
PriceID Price, Garment, Service
1       $1.59        1        1
2       $1.38        1        2
3       $2.00        1        3
4       $0.59        2        1
The Pricing Table should include every combination of Garment and Service, and your orders should include the PriceID. Much easier than including the GarmentID and the ServiceID.

Also, with a design like this it's much easier to change prices or whatever.
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