Re: [TCLUG:19152] LOAD DATA INFILE

["Kevin R. Bullock" <kbullock@ringworld.org>]

On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Luke Francl wrote:

> Basically, you split off information
> which is not unique to a single record into its own table, then refer to
> it in the original table by a reference (in MySQL, you must use a number.
> Other more advanced databases have what's known as "foriegn keys" to help
> you out.) 

Unless I'm misunderstanding the information available to me, MySQL *does*
have support for foreign keys that don't have to be numbers. MySQL's
relations between tables are done by what it refers to as "foreign keys."

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