Shoutbox

djdannyp,

It is perfectly fine if you don't want to redo your database.  We all live with kludges that are the way they are because that's how it was done at one time and it works well enough to not spend more time on it.

Being a geek who designs databases and writes code in the course of his work, I find great satisfaction in making things more elegant and efficient.  That is why I proposed another way of doing this to you.  You don't necessarily have to implement it, it is sufficient that you now see the principle and may use it in some future project.