ADVICE: Best way to store multi values

[Mark Worsdall <mysql@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I have a table called staff which currently has a column called 
subjectTitles_id which is the type INTEGER.

I have another table called subjectTitles which contains 12 subject 
titles.

So that is how a member of staff is assigned a subject.

Trouble is I need to be able to assign a multiple number of subjects to 
anyone member of staff.

The method I thought to use was change staff.subjectTitles_id from 
INTEGER type to CHAR type and store a string of CSV numbers which 
correspond to the id's of the table subjectTitles, e.g.:-

1;2;7;10

Is this the way?

It seems quite ungraceful.

M.
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