If the first time you heard this phrase “parent-child relationship in MySQL”, you went “Ok, anyone else got cool made up names or are we to start brainstorming now”, then this article is for you. For the uninitiated, this might not make much sense. That’s perfectly fine because you do not necessarily need it everyday.
Parent-child relationship in MySQL has to deal with establishing some hierarchal dependencies between records in a database table. In MySQL terms, it means say that “row 12 is the parent of row 14” and stuff like that. In business terms, it will mean establishing a dependency relationship between two similar entities. For example, keeping a record of all the people in a village and matching parents to their children.
So, whenever you hear that phrase, think about a real-world parent-child relationship. For the rest of this article, we are going to explore how to establish said relationships and possible …
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