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Re: Table Schema - Inner Joins
Posted by: Peter Brawley
Date: January 12, 2022 04:03PM

Grandparent FKs are redundant, invite skew, don't do it! See 4a...4e in https://www.artfulsoftware.com/dbdesignbasics.html, you seem to need ...

users( uid int unsigned primary key, ... )

cases( cid int unsigned primary key, uid int unsigned, foreign key(uid) references users(uid), ... )

supplements( sid int unsigned primary key, cid int unsigned, foreign key( cid) references cases(cid), ... )



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/12/2022 04:14PM by Peter Brawley.

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