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Programming Ecto
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Programming Ecto

by Darin Wilson, Eric Meadows-Jonsson
April 2019
Beginner to intermediate
244 pages
6h 34m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Changing Data and Table Structure Together

Our new compositions table is working better now that we’ve added some indexes, but as we start adding data, we discover another problem. Our current structure only allows us to associate one composer with each record, and some songs have more than one composer. As we think about it further, we realize that many songs have separate composers and lyricists, and we might want to capture that info as well.

This sounds like a job for a many-to-many relationship between compositions and artists: a composition can have many artists, and an artist can contribute to many songs. As we discussed in Chapter 3, Connecting Your Tables to Elixir Structs with Schemas we’ll need a new join table between compositions ...

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