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Re: Split Values by comma and Check in another Table?
Posted by: Peter Brawley
Date: January 29, 2009 08:57PM

>1 2318, 5236, 8541
>2 5236,8762
>3 8541, 2318, 5236, 8762

Violates a basic rule of database design: atomicity, ie one value only per cell. Read about normalisation, eg on pages listed at http://www.artfulsoftware.com/dbresources.html.

PB

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