Can anyone explain how to implement one-to-one, one-to-many and many-to-many relationships while designing tables with some examples?
One-to-one: Use a foreign key to the referenced table:
student: student_id, first_name, last_name, address_id
address: address_id, address, city, zipcode, student_id # you can have a
# "link back" if you need
You must also put a unique constraint on the foreign key column (addess.student_id) to prevent multiple rows in the child table (address) from relating to the same row in the referenced table (student).
One-to-many: Use a foreign key on the many side of the relationship linking back to the "one" side:
teachers: teacher_id, first_name, last_name # the "one" side
classes: class_id, class_name, teacher_id # the "many" side
Many-to-many: Use a junction table (example):
student: student_id, first_name, last_name
classes: class_id, name, teacher_id
student_classes: class_id, student_id # the junction table
Example queries:
-- Getting all students for a class:
SELECT s.student_id, last_name
FROM student_classes sc
INNER JOIN students s ON s.student_id = sc.student_id
WHERE sc.class_id = X
-- Getting all classes for a student:
SELECT c.class_id, name
FROM student_classes sc
INNER JOIN classes c ON c.class_id = sc.class_id
WHERE sc.student_id = Y
Here are some real-world examples of the types of relationships:
One-to-one (1:1)
A relationship is one-to-one if and only if one record from table A is related to a maximum of one record in table B.
To establish a one-to-one relationship, the primary key of table B (with no orphan record) must be the secondary key of table A (with orphan records).
For example:
CREATE TABLE Gov(
GID number(6) PRIMARY KEY,
Name varchar2(25),
Address varchar2(30),
TermBegin date,
TermEnd date
);
CREATE TABLE State(
SID number(3) PRIMARY KEY,
StateName varchar2(15),
Population number(10),
SGID Number(4) REFERENCES Gov(GID),
CONSTRAINT GOV_SDID UNIQUE (SGID)
);
INSERT INTO gov(GID, Name, Address, TermBegin)
values(110, 'Bob', '123 Any St', '1-Jan-2009');
INSERT INTO STATE values(111, 'Virginia', 2000000, 110);
One-to-many (1:M)
A relationship is one-to-many if and only if one record from table A is
related to one or more records in table B. However, one record in table B cannot be related to more than one record in table A.
To establish a one-to-many relationship, the primary key of table A (the "one" table) must be the secondary key of table B (the "many" table).
For example:
CREATE TABLE Vendor(
VendorNumber number(4) PRIMARY KEY,
Name varchar2(20),
Address varchar2(20),
City varchar2(15),
Street varchar2(2),
ZipCode varchar2(10),
Contact varchar2(16),
PhoneNumber varchar2(12),
Status varchar2(8),
StampDate date
);
CREATE TABLE Inventory(
Item varchar2(6) PRIMARY KEY,
Description varchar2(30),
CurrentQuantity number(4) NOT NULL,
VendorNumber number(2) REFERENCES Vendor(VendorNumber),
ReorderQuantity number(3) NOT NULL
);
Many-to-many (M:M)
A relationship is many-to-many if and only if one record from table A is related to one or more records in table B and vice-versa.
To establish a many-to-many relationship, create a third table called "ClassStudentRelation" which will have the primary keys of both table A and table B.
CREATE TABLE Class(
ClassID varchar2(10) PRIMARY KEY,
Title varchar2(30),
Instructor varchar2(30),
Day varchar2(15),
Time varchar2(10)
);
CREATE TABLE Student(
StudentID varchar2(15) PRIMARY KEY,
Name varchar2(35),
Major varchar2(35),
ClassYear varchar2(10),
Status varchar2(10)
);
CREATE TABLE ClassStudentRelation(
StudentID varchar2(15) NOT NULL,
ClassID varchar2(14) NOT NULL,
FOREIGN KEY (StudentID) REFERENCES Student(StudentID),
FOREIGN KEY (ClassID) REFERENCES Class(ClassID),
UNIQUE (StudentID, ClassID)
);
One-to-many
The one-to-many table relationship looks as follows:
In a relational database system, a one-to-many table relationship links two tables based on a Foreign Key column in the child which references the Primary Key of the parent table row.
In the table diagram above, the post_id column in the post_comment table has a Foreign Key relationship with the post table id Primary Key column:
ALTER TABLE
post_comment
ADD CONSTRAINT
fk_post_comment_post_id
FOREIGN KEY (post_id) REFERENCES post
One-to-one
The one-to-one table relationship looks as follows:
In a relational database system, a one-to-one table relationship links two tables based on a Primary Key column in the child which is also a Foreign Key referencing the Primary Key of the parent table row.
Therefore, we can say that the child table shares the Primary Key with the parent table.
In the table diagram above, the id column in the post_details table has also a Foreign Key relationship with the post table id Primary Key column:
ALTER TABLE
post_details
ADD CONSTRAINT
fk_post_details_id
FOREIGN KEY (id) REFERENCES post
Many-to-many
The many-to-many table relationship looks as follows:
In a relational database system, a many-to-many table relationship links two parent tables via a child table which contains two Foreign Key columns referencing the Primary Key columns of the two parent tables.
In the table diagram above, the post_id column in the post_tag table has also a Foreign Key relationship with the post table id Primary Key column:
ALTER TABLE
post_tag
ADD CONSTRAINT
fk_post_tag_post_id
FOREIGN KEY (post_id) REFERENCES post
And, the tag_id column in the post_tag table has a Foreign Key relationship with the tag table id Primary Key column:
ALTER TABLE
post_tag
ADD CONSTRAINT
fk_post_tag_tag_id
FOREIGN KEY (tag_id) REFERENCES tag
One to one (1-1) relationship:
This is relationship between primary & foreign key (primary key relating to foreign key only one record). this is one to one relationship.
One to Many (1-M) relationship:
This is also relationship between primary & foreign keys relationships but here primary key relating to multiple records (i.e. Table A have book info and Table B have multiple publishers of one book).
Many to Many (M-M): Many to many includes two dimensions, explained fully as below with sample.
-- This table will hold our phone calls.
CREATE TABLE dbo.PhoneCalls
(
ID INT IDENTITY(1, 1) NOT NULL,
CallTime DATETIME NOT NULL DEFAULT GETDATE(),
CallerPhoneNumber CHAR(10) NOT NULL
)
-- This table will hold our "tickets" (or cases).
CREATE TABLE dbo.Tickets
(
ID INT IDENTITY(1, 1) NOT NULL,
CreatedTime DATETIME NOT NULL DEFAULT GETDATE(),
Subject VARCHAR(250) NOT NULL,
Notes VARCHAR(8000) NOT NULL,
Completed BIT NOT NULL DEFAULT 0
)
-- This table will link a phone call with a ticket.
CREATE TABLE dbo.PhoneCalls_Tickets
(
PhoneCallID INT NOT NULL,
TicketID INT NOT NULL
)
I have 5 tables which are
Users
-id
-influencer_id
Influencers
-id
Categories
-catogory_id
-influencer_id
platforms
-influencer_id
-platform_id
tasks
-influencer_id
-task_id
I want to delete an influencer and also delete all records at once. How to do that?
use ON DELETE CASCADE while creating tables. Like:
CREATE TABLE child (
id INT,
parent_id INT,
INDEX par_ind (parent_id),
FOREIGN KEY (parent_id)
REFERENCES parent(id)
ON DELETE CASCADE
) ENGINE=INNODB;
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/create-table-foreign-keys.html
First delete records from other tables. You can use following query:
DELETE FROM Users u
USING Influencers i
WHERE u.id = i.id;
You can do the same for other tables and then at last DROP the Influencers table.
DROP TABLE Influencers;
I'm fairly new to PHP and MySQL.
I have two tables as follows:
1.`users`: `id`//primary key
: `name`//user's name
2.`events`: `u_id`//index key and foreign field to users' id
: `u_name`
A user will input an id in a form. That id will be searched in the users table and the relevant details will be taken and inserted in the events table.
I've created the foreign fields and and till now I made a function that took id as a variable and returned details from the users tables as variables which I then inserted in the events table. But then, it meant using "a lot" of variables and I thought what was the use of foreign field.
I'm still learning PHP and don't know how to find and insert using FOREIGN fields from one table to another. I just know how to create foreign fields. Please help.
Is this what you're talking about?
This is how foreign key is created.
CREATE TABLE parent (id INT NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (id)
);
CREATE TABLE child (id INT, parent_id INT,
INDEX par_ind (parent_id),
FOREIGN KEY (parent_id) REFERENCES parent(id)
ON DELETE CASCADE
);
Apologize if I didn't understand your question
UPDATED
INSERT table1 (col1, col2, col3)
SELECT col1, col2, col3
FROM table2
WHERE col1 = 'xyz'
Hope this helps
You don't need to store the user name in the events table. The point of the foreign key is that you only need to store the user ID in the events table, because that is a REFERENCE to the user.
To get the user name for an event, say event number 6, you would do
select name from users join events on users.id = events.u_id where events.id = 6
So, you should not be trying to insert user data into the events table. Just put the ID in there, and the user data will be available for you to retrieve using the foreign key.
I need to store multiple id's in either a field in the table or add another table to store the id's in.
Each member will basically have favourite articles. Each article has an id which is stored when the user clicks on a Add to favourites button.
My question is:
Do I create a field and in this field add the multiple id's or do I create a table to add those id's?
What is the best way to do this?
This is a many-to-many relationship, you need an additional table storing pairs of user_id and article_id (primary keys of user and article tables, respectively).
You should create a new table instead of having comma seperated values in a single column.
Keep your database normalized.
You create a separate table, this is how things work in a relational database. The other solution (comma separated list of ids in one column) will lead to an unmaintainable database. For example, what if you want to know how many times an article was favorited? You cannot write queries on a column like this.
Your table will need to store the user's id and the article's id - these refer to the primary keys of the corresponding tables. For querying, you can either use JOINs or nested SELECT queries.
As lafor already pointed out this is a many-to-many relationship and you'll end up with three tables: user, article, and favorite:
CREATE TABLE user(
id INT NOT NULL,
...
PRIMARY KEY (id)
) ENGINE=INNODB;
CREATE TABLE article (
id INT NOT NULL,
...
PRIMARY KEY (id)
) ENGINE=INNODB;
CREATE TABLE favorite (
userID INT NOT NULL,
articleID INT NOT NULL,
FOREIGN KEY (userID) REFERENCES user(id) ON DELETE CASCADE,
FOREIGN KEY (articleID) REFERENCES article(id) ON DELETE CASCADE,
PRIMARY KEY (userID, articleID)
) ENGINE=INNODB;
If you then want to select all user's favorite articles you use a JOIN:
SELECT * FROM favorite f JOIN article a ON f.articleID = a.id WHERE f.userID = ?
If you want to know why you should use this schema, I recommend reading about database normilization. With multiple IDs in a single field you would even violate the first normal form and thus land in a world of pain...
I am new to php and mysql. I created a database named 'students' which contain two tables as 'student_details' which have fields like 'ID, Name, Age, Tel#, Address' and another table as 'fee_details' which have fields like 'ID(student_details table ID), Inst Id, Date, Receipt No'.
I want to set a foreign key and retrieve data from both tables when a student paid their fees and if a student passed out or discontinued I want a delete option to delete his all records from my tables. So please help me to solve this by PHP code and displays it in HTML while using a search form.
Enforcing referential integrity at the database level is the way to go. I believe when you said you wanted the delete "to delete his all records from my tables" you meant deleting the row and all its child records. You can do that by using foreign keys and ON DELETE CASCADE.
CREATE TABLE students
(
student_id INT NOT NULL,
name VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (student_id)
) ENGINE=INNODB;
CREATE TABLE fee_details
(
id INT,
date TIMESTAMP,
student_id INT,
FOREIGN KEY (student_id) REFERENCES students(student_id)
ON DELETE CASCADE
) ENGINE=INNODB;
With this, when a student is deleted from the students table, all its associated records will be deleted from fee_details.
you can try mysql_query() and mysql_assoc_array()