First off all I'm using SQL Server CE and I've created a data context for my database to handle it in C# code.
This is my problem:
In TableA
, there are several "static" items that won't change: they are "attributes" like the following:
Name=available 24 hours, ID=1, isset=1
where Name
is a string, ID
type of int and isset
a bit.
There are about 100 attributes in the list.
Now, I have TableB
with items that can have these attributes. I can't add a relation between a Column AttributeID
and the attributeID
, because the item can have several.
But I can't add a column with the itemID
in the attributes
table either, because several items can have this attribute.
So what can I do? Is there a way in SQL Server CE to achieve this?
EDIT: So, I'll try to explain more clearly:
My TableA
is a table with 3 columns: Name
, ID
and isset
.
Each row in this TableA
represents one item, let's call it itemA
.
There are about 100 rows (= 100 itemA
) in the table.
Now, my TableB
represents itemB
that can have one or several of these itemA
.
But I don't know how to do this: It wouldn't work to add a relation between a column of TableB
called itemA_ID
and the column of TableA
called ID
, because one itemB
can contain more than one itemA
. But the opposite way round, it wouldn't work either: A relation between a column itemB_ID
of TableA
and a column of TableB
called ID
is neither possible, because one itemA
can refer to more than one itemB
.
I know it's a bit complicated but I hope that it's a bit easier to understand now.
Your question is hard to understand, but I am guessing you have a one-to-many relation. That is, you have many "Item"s, each of which can have many "attributes".
The way to handle this is to create a lookup table for each relation. E.g.:
TableA
AttributeID Availability
1 Available 24 hours
2 Available 48 hours
TableB
ItemID IsSet ItemName
1 1 Something
TableC
ItemID AttributeID
1 1
1 2
If that is not what you mean, please provide examples of your data.