Where is the parent ID in contact exports?

[StewRat]

I need to do some work outside Sugar to relate meetings, contacts, accounts.

When I export the meetings, the parent_id field in the output gives me a way to lookup the account details, but an export of contacts doesn't seem to have such a field. There's an account name field, but those are not unique.

There must be such a field in contacts (mustn't there?) or how do they get related to accounts?

This is still in 5.0.0h by the way.

Thanks for any help.

[StewRat]

Well I said "there must be" but it just dawned on me that there are tables just to map relationships in Sugar aren't there, so the link doesnt necessarily have to be within the contacts table/record itself.