I have tables like this
Employee
Id | IdEmployee | Employee | Address | Phone_num |
1 | EM10000 | Jack | wall st. | 9000010 |
2 | EM10001 | Paul | elm st. | 9000010 |
3 | EM10002 | George | ex st . | 9000010 |
Technician
id | IdTech | TechName | Address | phone_num |
1 | TE10000 | Gabut | Hello st. | 9000010 |
2 | TE10001 | Polnaref | coding st. | 9000010 |
3 | TE10002 | Rafioli | stack st. | 9000010 |
Admin
id | IdAdmin | username | password | phone_num |
1 | AM10000 | sim1 | 1234 | 9000010 |
2 | AM10001 | sim2 | luvcoding | 9000010 |
3 | AM10002 | sim3 | okaymate | 9000010 |
How do i make Table Technician and Employee become a user too, so they could use their information as username in a login form? Plus, i want each Id (not the "AutoIncrement" ID) of Technician and Employee would become the username.
How to manage the database like this?
or should i add password column in both tables? (Employee and Technician)
or should i make one table just like this?
(new) Admin
id | Id | username | password | phone_num |
1 | AM10000 | sim1 | 1234 | 9000010 |
2 | AM10001 | sim2 | luvcoding | 9000010 |
3 | AM10002 | sim3 | okaymate | 9000010 |
4 | AM10003 | EM10000 | test1 | NULL |
5 | AM10004 | EM10001 | test2 | NULL |
6 | AM10005 | EM10002 | test3 | NULL |
7 | AM10006 | TE10000 | 1234 | NULL |
8 | AM10007 | TE10001 | ok123 | NULL |
There is no relationship between Technician and Employee (stand-alone table)
In your case, you would be better making your tables in normalization form as follows:
Employees
IdEmployee | Employee | Address | Phone_num
EM10000 | Jack | wall st. | 9000010
EM10001 | Paul | elm st. | 9000010
EM10002 | George | ex st . | 9000010
Technicians
IdEmployee | TechName
TE10000 | Gabut
TE10001 | Polnaref
Admins
IdEmployee | Password
TE10001 | hashed_pass1
EM10002 | hashed_pass2
This makes sure you have no replicated data and ensures you can associate tables correctly by using foreign keys.
So if your admin has IdAdmin 'EM10002', to get the password of that employee with the following query:
// Will return a row with EM10002's password, which is 'hashed_pass2'.
SELECT Password from Admins WHERE IdEmployee = EM10002
Here is another example of foreign key usage.
To understand normalization more, have a look at this thread.