what is the best way to make database relation in case of multiple options like payment?

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Hello, I have this problem in designing database relation, and I want to know what is the best way to do this.

I have customer who can make payment, but he have many options to pay like cash, cheque, or by credit.

Basically I have customer table (cust-id, cust-name ...) and payment option table (opt-id) but each payment method have different data which must be recorded too. The data will be saved in order table (order-id, order-date ...) which have relation with customer table.

So how to do this relation in database?

Posted 17-Mar-15 12:30pm

Hassan Dbouk

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jgakenhe · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-17T14:32:00

You can add the OptID to the Order table. The OptID in the Order table will reference the OptID in the PaymentOption table. This will create a relationship between PaymentOption and Order tables, where Order.OptID references PaymentOption.OptID.

Here is a good example that is very similar what you are wanting to do: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175464%28v=sql.105%29.aspx[^]

Magic Wonder · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-17T19:54:00

Hi,

Check below...

You can have below tables to maintain relations between your tables

SQL

Customer Table
----------------
Customer_Info
(
Cust_Id,
Cust_name,
.--Your Required Columns
.
.
)

Payment Option Table
--------------------
Pay_Option
(
Po_Id,
PO_Desc,
.--Your Required Columns
.
.
)

Payment Transaction Table
-------------------------
Payment_Trans
(
PT_Id,
PT_PO_Id,--from Payment Option tables
PT_Cust_Id,--from Customer table
PT_Amt,
PT_Status,
PT_Desc,
PT_Date,
.--Your Required Columns (with all required details of different payments)
.
.
)

Order Details Table
-------------------
Order_Dtls
(
Ord_Id,
Ord_PT_Id,--from payment Trans table
Ord_Cust_Id,--from customer table
Ord_Date,
.--Your Required Columns
.
.
)

Hope this will help you.

Cheers

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