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Re: login validation from 2 tables in same database

From "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.php
Subject Re: login validation from 2 tables in same database
Date 2014-02-03 13:18 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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Denis McMahon wrote:

> hujan wrote:
>> Also, each table have different number of columns. Below is my table
>> fields:
>> 
>> user [id(PK), profile, name, gender, dob, contact, addr1,
>> email,username, password]
>> 
>> student [reg_no(pk), s_name, s_gender, s_ic, s_dob, s_contact, s_email,
>> s_addr1, s_addr2, country, s_dept, s_post, username, password]
> 
> Your data needs some normalisation. If a student is also a user you're
> storing a lot of duplicated data.

Not only that: I would recommend also breaking up the name fields to 
firstname, mi, lastname and adding city, state, postcode fields. 
Otherwise, the "combined" fields are quite useless for searching.

Data gatherers will use:  [John Smith]  or  [Smith, John A.]  if you give 
'em a chance...

-- 
   -bts
   -This space for rent, but the price is high

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login validation from 2 tables in same database hujan <zarinsung@hotmail.com> - 2014-02-03 03:03 -0600
  Re: login validation from 2 tables in same database Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-02-03 12:47 +0000
    Re: login validation from 2 tables in same database "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> - 2014-02-03 13:18 +0000
      Re: login validation from 2 tables in same database Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-02-03 23:13 +0000

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