Multi tables having a to-many relationship to the same table
"Rohrbaugh, John H" <[email protected]> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:37:55 -0400
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We have a change history logging table named 'ChangeHistory' and would like several tables to have a to-many relationship to it. Student table has a to-many relationship to ChangeHistory named 'toStudentChangeHistory' School table has a to-many relationship to ChangeHistory named 'toSchoolChangeHistory' ChangeHistory includes an attribute named 'foreignKeyId' that will contain the primary key of the table that points to it; ie studentId or schoolId. Thought I would also have a ChangeHistory attribute named 'changeHistoryType' that would distinguish the tables (value either 'STUDENT' or 'SCHOOL') toStudentChangeHistory join would be: Where Student.studentId = ChangeHistory.foreignKeyId and ChangeHistory.changeHistoryType = 'STUDENT' toSchoolChangeHistory join would be: Where School.schoolId = ChangeHistory.foreignKeyId and ChangeHistory.changeHistoryType = 'SCHOOL' I can not figure out how to specify the changeHistoryType part of the join in the EOModeler. Thought of a few work-a-rounds, but would rather not add additional attributes. For instance, could add the changeHistoryType to both the Student and School tables. Just seems like there should be a better way of doing this. Thanks for your help. JohnR