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Re: Query - multiple joins won't return any records
Posted by: Peter Brawley
Date: February 15, 2015 01:40AM

> The teams table amounts to a table of values. The divisions table amounts to a table of values.

?! all tables are tables of values.

> There is no implicit connection between teams and divisions.

You mean the relationship is many-many?

It is beginning to sound like an Entity-attribute-value (EAV) schema. If it is, stop right here. EAV schemas are abominable to design, abonimable to use and impossible to debug and maintain.

Instead, walk through a stazndard analysis method like http://www.artfulsoftware.com/dbdesignbasics.html, and post results & problems here.

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