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Setting up some new tables
Posted by: Vincent Guerin
Date: July 31, 2009 09:18AM

I have a lot of experience writing SQL and PL-SQL, but I've actually never set up tables based on requirements. Wanted to get some feedback on a hypothetical situation.

I need to store a list of Concerts, each with their own ID (and other fields like date, time, etc). Each concert can have 1 venue attached to it, and each venue has it's own unique ID and info. That part is easy, a concerts table and a venue table, with a FK field on the concert table that maps 1-to-1 to the unique key on the venue table. But here's a twist: each concert can have multiple "Headline" artists, as well as multiple "Opening" artists playing. I can setup an Artist table, each with a unique ID, but what is the proper way of storing the multiple artists on the Concert table?

Would it be a comma-separated list in a field on the Concert table? Or multiple rows? And if multiple rows, how to store both headliners and openers? Or maybe just have a set number of slots for each one, and have Headliner1, Headliner2..Headliner5 (same with opener). Sorry I know this is a basic question, but any advice for a newbie would be GREATLY appreciated! Thank you in advance!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/31/2009 09:28AM by Vincent Guerin.

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