>Hi
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>If you had a table that was related to say, 6 tables, would it be better to have 6 individual foreign key fields, or would it be better to have 1 foreign key field and then a "type" to identify where it came from.
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>I prefer the latter, but what about everyone else?
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>Thanks
>Kev
I see two difficulties with the approach you propose: 1) What if the table is related to two or more other tables at the same time? 2) It is quite messy to define relations.
I suggest you give a more specific example of what you want to achieve. What sort of information do the 6 "other" tables contain?
HTH, Hilmar.
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