[mysql] How to create relationships in MySQL

CREATE TABLE accounts(
    account_id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
    customer_id INT( 4 ) NOT NULL ,
    account_type ENUM( 'savings', 'credit' ) NOT NULL,
    balance FLOAT( 9 ) NOT NULL,
    PRIMARY KEY ( account_id )
)

and

CREATE TABLE customers(
    customer_id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
    name VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL,
    address VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL,
    city VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL,
    state VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL,
)

How do I create a 'relationship' between the two tables? I want each account to be 'assigned' one customer_id (to indicate who owns it).

You have to ask yourself is this a 1 to 1 relationship or a 1 out of many relationship. That is, does every account have a customer and every customer have an account. Or will there be customers without accounts. Your question implies the latter.

If you want to have a strict 1 to 1 relationship, just merge the two tables.

CREATE TABLE customers(
    customer_id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
    name VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL,
    address VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL,
    city VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL,
    state VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL,
    account_type ENUM( 'savings', 'credit' ) NOT NULL,
    balance FLOAT( 9 ) NOT NULL,
)

In the other case, the correct way to create a relationship between two tables is to create a relationship table.

CREATE TABLE customersaccounts(
    customer_id INT NOT NULL,
    account_id INT NOT NULL,
    PRIMARY KEY (customer_id, account_id)
    FOREIGN KEY customer_id references customers (customer_id) on delete cascade,
    FOREIGN KEY account_id  references accounts  (account_id) on delete cascade
}

Then if you have a customer_id and want the account info, you join on customersaccounts and accounts:

SELECT a.*
    FROM customersaccounts ca
        INNER JOIN accounts a ca.account_id=a.account_id
            AND ca.customer_id=mycustomerid;

Because of indexing this will be blindingly quick.

You could also create a VIEW which gives you the effect of the combined customersaccounts table while keeping them separate

CREATE VIEW customeraccounts AS 
    SELECT a.*, c.* FROM customersaccounts ca
        INNER JOIN accounts a ON ca.account_id=a.account_id
        INNER JOIN customers c ON ca.customer_id=c.customer_id;

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