将数据插入关系数据库的最简单方法是什么？

Question

I have a relational database set up and I want to be able to insert data in an intuitive manner despite the normalization. For instance, I have a table for "ideals" and another table for "actions that this ideal promotes." However, I want to insert this data like a backwards view. I want to be able to list an "ideal" and then just list as many actions as I want in the same window. There has to be some best practice for this kind of thing. How should I got about this?

EDIT: data will only be editing my me. It will never be edited by users. So I want to know how to edit this data in sqlite DBBrowser, not in a UI.

Answer 1

It sounds like you want to insert your data into views and not tables .

Many databases support triggers on views. So, you define the "intuitive" views that you want. Then you write the triggers that do the appropriate manipulations to the underlying tables.

If your data is starting out in a file, then you can use an alternative approach. You would load the file into a staging table and then use a stored procedure to convert the staging table into the appropriate underlying tables.