On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Luke Francl wrote: > Basically, you split off information > which is not unique to a single record into its own table, then refer to > it in the original table by a reference (in MySQL, you must use a number. > Other more advanced databases have what's known as "foriegn keys" to help > you out.) Unless I'm misunderstanding the information available to me, MySQL *does* have support for foreign keys that don't have to be numbers. MySQL's relations between tables are done by what it refers to as "foreign keys." Pacem in Terris / Mir / Shanti / Salaam / Heiwa Kevin R. Bullock --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org