Hello,
I am helping friend by developing a database for him. Currently the database contains two tables: - the Company's details are found in one table while the Company Contacts' details are contained in another table:
Company
CompanyID
Address1
Address2
Address3
CompanyContacts
ContactID
CompanyID
Title
FirstName
LastName
Phone
AlternatePhone
MobilePhone
Email
AlternateEmail
So my friend wants to mimic the structure of the data in a spreadsheet where both the Company data and the Contacts are stored on one table. Note a Company may contain two or three contact persons and each contact may have more than phone number and email
address. I tried to explain to him that it is bad database design but he wants to see all of the Company and Contact details in one record, like this format: -
Company
CompanyID
Address1
Address2
Address3
Contact1
Title1
FirstName1
LastName1
Phone1
AlternatePhone1
MobilePhone1
Email1
AlternateEmail1
Contact2
Title2
FirstName2
LastName2
Phone2
AlternatePhone2
MobilePhone2
Email2
AlternateEmail2
Contact3
Title3
FirstName3
LastName3
Phone3
AlternatePhone3
MobilePhone3
Email3
AlternateEmail3
Is this second approach - combined Company's details and Contact's details - in a table possible?
N.B. if I used the first approach with the two separates: Company table and Contacts table and I create a report containing the Company data and the Contacts data, the Contact information will appear in multiple rows. Is this possible to have Contact details
appear in one row if there are multiple Contacts?
Thanks