Posted by @sh on 07/07/06 09:38

Thanks for your reply, I see what you're suggesting but its too late to
change the overall structure of the table now ;o(


"MGFoster" <me@privacy.com> wrote in message
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>
> Your columns "UserHotelIDAccess" and "CampaignHotelIDs" are in violation
> of 1NF (First Normal Form) "A cell must be atomic." I.e., there must
> only be one item per column. If your data was like this:
>
> CampaignID, CampaignName, CampaignHotelIDs
> 1 Test Campaign 1
> 1 Test Campaign 4
> 1 Test Campaign 5
> 1 Test Campaign 7
> 1 Test Campaign 9
> 2 Test Campaign2 1
> 2 Test Campaign2 2
>
> UserID, UserName, UserHotelIDAccess
> 1 Test User 1
> 1 Test User 6
> 1 Test User 7
> 2 Test User 2
> 2 Test User 7
>
> Your WHERE clause would work like this:
>
> WHERE CampaignHotelIDs = UserHotelIDAccess
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