Databases Reference
In-Depth Information
Benefits of the Defined Relations
In this section we will look at the benefits that we can currently test; other benefits
will be described in Chapter 13 (
The Multi-Table Query Generator
) and Chapter 15
(
System Documentation
). Some other benefits of the linked-tables infrastructure will
appear in Chapter 14 (
Bookmarks
) and Chapter 16 (
MIME-Based Transformations
).
These benefits are available for both internal and InnoDB relations.
Foreign Key Information
Let's browse the
topics
table. We see that the related key (
author_id
) is now a link.
Moving the mouse pointer over any
author_id
value reveals the author's name
(as defined by the display field of the
authors
table):
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