Re: table joining duplicate records - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Anthony Kinyage
Subject Re: table joining duplicate records
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Msg-id 20060708103503.45211.qmail@web51910.mail.yahoo.com
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In response to table joining duplicate records  (onin <jnana@mobius.ph>)
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In your case Survey , Categories, Questions and Answers TABLES are parents tables, and Question_answers TABLE is a Child Table.
 
Since you want to have survery, from Survey Table, Category from Category Table, Question from Question Table and Answer from Answer Table and alll these Atributes are on Question_answer Table, in your case you can use the following:
 
 
SELECT * FROM question_answer;
 
Try this STATEMENT


onin <jnana@mobius.ph> wrote:
hi all,

somebody please help me with my sql statement.
or point me to the right documentation that i need to read.

what i want to working on right now is to create a db for a survey app
my tables look this

surveys
survey_id:survey
----------------
1 : survey1

categories
category_id:category
----------------
1 :category1

questions
question_id:question
----------------
1 :question1

answers
answer_id:answer
----------------
1 :answer1
2 :answer2

questions_answers
question_answer_id:survey_id:category_id:question_id:answer_id
1 :1 :1 :1
1 :1 :1 :2

and my query looks like this

select s.survey, c.category, q.question, a.answer from questions_answers
qa, answers a, questions q, categories c, surveys s
where qa.answer_id = a.answer_id and qa.question_id = q.question_id and
qa.category_id = c.category_id and qa.survey_id = s.survey_id;


after executing the code,
i get results like this.

--query results--
survey :category :question :answer
survey1:category1:question1:answer1
survey1:category1:question1:answer2

how can i elimate duplicates on my query results?
an also am i using the right 'table joining' or table design for my
survey app?


any help would be appriciated.
thanks in advance.

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