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Posted by: Joseph Longo
Date: January 12, 2022 02:53PM

Hello all,

I need some assistance in designing my tables for a project I am working on. I am stumped on which foreign keys to include in which table, in order to join them correctly.

I have a users table, a cases table, and a supplements table. One user can have many cases, and one case can have many supplements. I am creating a "tracking" program which stores the users id, case number, and various dates the case is supplemented. The purpose of the tracking program is to email/text the user a reminder their case needs to be supplemented after X amount of days have elapsed. For instance:

User: Apu Nahasapeemapetilon ---> Case: 12345-67890 ---> Supplement dates: 01-01-2022, 01-06-2022, 01-08-2022, etc.

So, *thinking out loud* the cases table would need to include the users id from the users table as a foreign key so each user access their case...right?

Here's where I get stumped...

What foreign keys should I include in my supplements table? Should I only include the cases ID, or do I need to include the users ID along with the cases ID in the supplements table, too?

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