Lawrence Mrazek
lmrazek at lcm-res.com
Wed Mar 26 15:51:40 CDT 2008
Hi Folks: I'm working on revising a resource directory consisting of companies/organizations and the services they offer, and would appreciate any feedback regarding a specific design question I have. Each company/organization can have multiple locations. Given that the locations are currently contained in 20+ separate tables, once for each service grouping (EX: dogs, cars, birds), and with specific fields for each service, I'd like to resolve the locations into one table, and link out to services via a some sort of relationship. For example, the "dogs" table might have the additional fields: breed, color, weight, while Cars might have: horsepower, tire size, etc. I'd like to have this system to be as flexible as possible, any hints on how to relate those service specific fields to the general tblLocation? Note that each location might could have multiple services associated with it. Thanks ... I'm just a bit foggy today and need a second opinion on this problem. Larry Mrazek LCM Research, Inc. www.lcm-res.com lmrazek at lcm-res.com ph. 314-432-5886 mobile: 314-496-1645