mysql help

[anolan13]

So I have a MySQL table "Member" with a field called "Interest" I need to put different variables in "Interest" all at the same time

 

For example

 

"Football", "hunting", and "fishing" all need to go in one "Interest" column, where the row is "name"

 

Does MySQL allow this?

 

Is that too confusing?

[revraz]

Why wouldn't it?  It's just data.

[trq]

A better design would be to have an interest table with two fields, one to store a users id and the other there interest.

 

CREATE TABLE interests (
 id INT PRIMARY KEY AUTO INCREMENT,
 userid INT,
 interest VARCHAR(80)
);

 

Then, to store the interests for user 1....

 

INSERT INTO interests (userid,interest) VALUES (1,'Football');
INSERT INTO interests (userid,interest) VALUES (1,'Hunting');
INSERT INTO interests (userid,interest) VALUES (1,'Fishing');

 

Then to retrieve user 1's interests....

 

SELECT interest FROM interests WHERE userid = 1

 

This could also be broken down further by adding another table to store all the different interest types and simply making the interests table store userid's and interesttype ids.