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Help with Music Database Relationships

Discussion in 'Databases' started by Kenold, Oct 24, 2015.

  1. #1
    I need help with many-to-many relationships for a small music database project. Here are the main entities: albums, artists, tracks, genres, labels, videos

    [Artists] artist_id, type_id, name
    [Albums] album_id, title, genre_id, cover_art, label_id, release_date
    [Artists_Albums] album_id, artist_id
    [Tracks] track_id, title,album_id, position, length, video_id, lyrics
    [Artist_Tracks] album_id, track_id, artist_id, credit_id
    [Credits] credit_id, position
    [Genres] genre_id, name
    [Labels] label_id, name
    [Videos] video_id, title, track_id

    - an album can have one or more artists
    - a track can have one or more artists with a join keyword (ex: "Feat", ",", "&") Katy Perry Feat. Kanye West, Rihanna OR Rihanna & Kanye West & Paul McCartney. I'm not sure where to add the join keyword in the table
    - a track can have one more more videos / a video belongs to a track
    - a track can have one or more credits (Ex. Producer, Writer)

    Here's a link to the tables side by side http://prntscr.com/8uutq0
    Any help would be appreciated
     

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    Last edited: Oct 24, 2015
    Kenold, Oct 24, 2015 IP
  2. #2
    Hi,

    You don't need a join keyword. the fact that you have Artists_Albums is enough. This means that you can have the following 2 records

    Album1, Kanye West
    Album1, Katy Perry

    This would mean that album1 has two artists.

    In order to query this database, you'll just perform something like this:

    select * from Albums inner join Artists_Albums on Albums.album_id = Artists_Albums.album_id inner join Artists on Artists_Albums.artist_id = Artists.artist_id where Albums.title = 'Album1';

    Result= 2 records => Album1, Kanye West + Album1, Katy Perry

    Hope this helps,


    Please like my answer if it helps you. Regards,
     
    neutralhatter, Nov 7, 2015 IP
  3. Kenold

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    Kenold, Nov 10, 2015 IP