I'm a complete newbie, so please feel free to help me here!
I simplified my problem as below:
1. Thousands of companies (i.e. company names)
2. 200 industries. Each company has tree-type(?) industry info. (Industry, Sub-industry.
Say, each industry has 10 sub-industry information. (10X20))
The problem is one company can have 1,2,3... or 15 industries and/or sub-industries... (as
in a real-life case)
What would be a smart way create tables for this situation? (both company and industry
must be searchable)
(One rough thought (after having studying MySQL for 2 weeks now) is create 3 tables of
1. company (3 cols) - company id(pk), company name
2. industry (3 cols) - industry id(pk), industry, sub-industry
3. matching table (3 cols?) - match id(pk), company id(fk), industry id(fk)...? But, one
company can have more than 1 industry info! Ah... Then, if that's the case, different
match id & same company id & different industry id??)
I'm stuck here! :(
Any general advice would be appreciated... :)
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