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How to create table from an existing table

I’m in Oracle APEX and would like to create a new table from other existing one like this:

I have a column in a SONGS table that is:

ARTIST NAME Another header
Bad Bunny row
Bad Bunny, Ozuna, Daddy Yankee row

And I want this in another table:

ID Artist
1 Bad Bunny
2 Ozuna
3 Daddy Yankee

Also, from these 2 tables I would like to create another table or relationship to indicate on what songs have an artist participated.

Something like:

Song ID Artist ID
1 1
2 1
2 2

I want this third table to know in what song has participated an artist.

So im having troubles to create the 2nd and 3rd table from the first table.

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Answer

These are actually 2 different issues in a single question. Treat them as 2 different issues.

  1. How to design your tables. This needs to be done first, you can import your data in them later. Create a songs table, an artist table and an intersect table (artist_songs) with foreign keys to both artists and songs. It should be pretty straightforward, there are thousands of examples on the web or, since you’re using apex, using quicksql (SQL WOrkshop > Utilities > quick sql) for generating the tables is also an option.
  2. Migrate the data from that base table into your new, normalized tables. Have a look at this similar stackoverflow question

You have provided very little info about what data you have available initially. It only shows artists in a comma separated form – it’s hard to say how you would populate the songs or intersect table with that info.

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