Maybe this wouldn't be absolutely necessary, but it might save you some effort if you add an auto-increment row-ID field on the "people_who_have_qualifications" table. That way, when a user asks to see all the qualifications for Alice and might decide to make changes, you get a set of distinct row-ID handles for the records that currently exist as you provide these rows for review.

The user can then select one or more particular rows for update or deletion, and you can do the specified update or deletion directly on the selected rows, using the row-ID that you've kept track of in the UI. (The user doesn't need to see the row-ID -- you just need to keep track of it.)

In reply to Re: OT: updating database question by graff
in thread OT: updating database question by Cody Pendant

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