Hi,

I have a question regarding structure of my products table. I am trying to develop a table for various t-shirts, sweatshirts, etc. I currently have productid, price, picture, category, description, etc. My question regards how to handle multiple colors. I don't really want to repeat all the data in the rows each time i have another color becuase that causes conflicts with the productid's and my sort options.
I thought about a colorid linking to another table but i dont know if that would solve the problem or just over-complicate it.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,
Jesse Foote

that's a good solution

the relationship is many-to-many between product and colour, so you need a separate colour table, and then a relationship table to record the keys of product and colour which define which colours the products are available in

over-complicated is when you try to do stuff like place a list of colour codes into a single column in the product table -- that's asking for a world of hurt

i would personally stay away from ENUM datatype as well