Create multiple sqlite tables, many-to-many design
MRAB
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Tue Aug 13 16:45:29 EDT 2019
On 2019-08-13 19:59, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 4:50 AM Dave via Python-list
> <python-list at python.org> wrote:
>> Some of the tables are related. For example:
>>
>> Hiking_Table Trails_Table Joining_Table
>> ----------------- -------------------- -----------------
>> hike_id PK trail_id PK hike_id FK
>> hike_date TEXT trail_name TEXT trail_id FK
>> hike_destination TEXT trail_rating REAL
>> hike_rating REAL trail_comments TEXT
>> hike_comments TEXT
>>
>> So far, so good. I know how to create the tables. What I am struggling
>> with is how do I insert data into the joining table or don"t I? If so,
>> do I need to query the other two tables to get the auto-number ID's?
>> Some things I have read suggest that the joining table just contains
>> references, so there is no actual insert. A pointer to information how
>> to do this would be appreciated. As for queries, I think I use joins,
>> but a pointer on how to do this would also be appreciated.
>
> The joining table is a real thing, and will have real inserts. It
> might be easier to think of this as two separate one-to-many
> relationships; for the sake of demonstration, I'm going to add another
> column to your joining table.
>
> hike_sections ==> hike_id references hikes, trail_id references
> trails, companion_name
>
> You've decided to have someone with you for some sections of your
> hike. As such, what we have is a number of "mini-hikes" that make up a
> single hike (that's a one-to-many relationship between hikes and
> sections), and also a single trail can be a section of any number of
> hikes (so, another one-to-many relationship between trails and
> sections). For any given section, there is exactly one companion.
>
> Does this make the many-to-many relationship a bit easier to
> understand? It'll work exactly the same way even if you have no
> ancillary information in that joining table.
>
Might I also suggest dropping unnecessary prefixes from the field names.
For example, "hike_comments" in "Hiking_Table" can be called just
"comments" because it's clear from the context that a field called
"comments" in the hiking table will contain comments about hiking, if
you see what I mean.
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