唯一目的是指定另一个表的子集的表

Is it okay to create a table medical_employees with only an id column, whose only purpose is to specify which employees are medics? The id column has a foreign key constraint that references the employees table. The code below should make my question clearer:

/* Defines a generic employee */
CREATE TABLE employees (
    id      INT PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT,
    name    VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL
);

/* Specifies which employees are medics */
CREATE TABLE medical_employees (
    id INT NOT NULL,
    FOREIGN KEY (id) references employees(id);
);

/* Specifies what competences a medic can have */
CREATE TABLE medical_competences (
    id     INT PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT,
    name   VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL
);

/* A many-to-many relation between medical employees and
   their competences. */
CREATE TABLE medical_employees_competences (
    id             INT PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT,
    medic_id       INT NOT NULL,
    competence_id  INT NOT NULL,
    FOREIGN KEY (medic_id) REFERENCES medical_employees(id),
    FOREIGN KEY (competence_id) REFERENCES medical_competences(id)
);

推荐答案

是的，没关系，这是直接的关系习语，也是您应该做的.(您可以搜索 SQL 子类型和超类型.)