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    andrewb is offline Novice
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    Question on database structure - limiting linked records

    Hi all, sorry for the ambiguous and possibly incorrect thread title but I had no idea how to briefly describe my challenge.



    Currently I have a database with the following relationships:

    One Client has multiple Entities
    One Entity has multiple EntityServices
    One Service has multiple EntityServices (basically a table of service lines)

    Now this is all working fine, but I want to create a table by the name of EngagementLetters. It should have the following relationships:

    One Client has multiple EngagementLetters
    One EngagementLetters has multiple EntityServices

    and the tricky one: all EntityServices under a single EngagementLetter must have the same Client

    I've been able to create the above, but not the last point. It's stumped me, I have no idea how to do it! Would anyone be able to help with this?

    Thanks in advance!

    Cheers,
    Andrew

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    Estuardo is offline Novice
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    G'd morning Adrew,May be i don't understand what you want, because i see no problem to add a foreign key from the table EngagementLetters to the Client Table, and a foreign key from the EntityServices table to EngagementLetters. Take a look at this:
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    With this design you just have one drawback. You will need to join 4 tables to get the result you need.G'd Luck

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    andrewb is offline Novice
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    Hi Estuardo, thanks for your reply. However I'm a bit confused with your above solution as it doesn't seem to fit the structure I described. For example, in my structure each client must have multiple entities (think client = company group, entities = companies), but with your solution a client has only one entity, but an entity can have multiple clients. So thanks, but it's still not the solution I need.

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