Hvordan gemmer man en en til mange relation i MySQL database?

Du opretter en separat tabel for telefonnumre (dvs. en 1:M relation).

create table `users` (
  `id` int unsigned not null auto_increment,
  `name` varchar(100) not null,
  primary key(`id`)
);

create table `phone_numbers` (
  `id` int unsigned not null auto_increment,
  `user_id` int unsigned not null,
  `phone_number` varchar(25) not null,
  index pn_user_index(`user_id`),
  foreign key (`user_id`) references users(`id`) on delete cascade,
  primary key(`id`)
);

Nu kan du på en nem måde få en brugers telefonnumre med et simpelt join;

select
  pn.`phone_number`
from
  `users` as u,
  `phone_numbers` as pn
where
  u.`name`='John'
  and
  pn.`user_id`=u.`id`