Question

I’m having a hard time representing the following situation in the database:

A user can declare multiple addresses (such as Home, Office, Mailing etc. as requested by client).

I have an auto-incremented primary key called UserID that represents one user account. I’ve been thinking of making a BelongsToUserID column to represent each user’s form field to look like:

I can’t do this because each row can only be occupied by UserID row.
Any thoughts on how to achieve this?

Answer 1

You want a separate table holding the addresses. Perhaps something like:

| id(primary key) | type(enum home/work/etc.) | userID | address |