Skip to main content
Question

suppliers products

  • June 3, 2026
  • 4 replies
  • 19 views

Forum|alt.badge.img+1

I build 3 tables:

First table for suppliers: supplierId, supplierNmae.

Second table for products: productId, productName

Third table for the link between suppliers and products: supplierId (link to suppliers table), productId (link to products table), price (the price of the product that supply this product).

In relational data base that what I need to buid.

Is that what I need to do in Airtable data base?

 

 

4 replies

DevonK
Forum|alt.badge.img+17
  • Inspiring
  • June 3, 2026

You can link the suppliers and products tables directly without a joining table. Just create a new field in products, choose the field type “link to another record”, and select the suppliers table.


TheTimeSavingCo
Forum|alt.badge.img+32

If each product can have multiple Suppliers and different prices then yeah you’d need a third table called ‘Prices’ or something where each record represents a single Product for a single Supplier

If each product can only have one Supplier and one price, then just the Suppliers and Products table is fine


Forum|alt.badge.img+1
  • Author
  • New Participant
  • June 4, 2026

No, I dont think so.

I think you wrong, because the price of first supplier is differnet from secod supplier.
In relational data base we must add a table with the fields: PK of suppliers, PK of products, price that present the price acording to supplier and product. The primary key of third table is PK of supplier + PK of product.

 

Am I worong?


Forum|alt.badge.img+1
  • Author
  • New Participant
  • June 4, 2026

Dear  (Sorry, but I dont know your name),

I think you right and I must have third table.

 

Thank a lot