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Thread: Many to many relation ship

  1. #1
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    Hi,

    If we get many to many relation ship while we r designing the database what do we do.

    Please give me the exact answer.


    Cheers,

  2. #2
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    Well, the 'exact answer' is to go to your Data Modeling material and look up "Associative Entity". An associative entity is a result of taking a many-to-many relationship, creating a new entity and having the two original entities each in a relationship with the associative entity 1-to-many.

    Berfore:

    E1 (m)----------------------(m) E2


    After:

    E1 (1)-----------(m) New Associative Entity (m)---------(1) E2


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    Jeff Hunter

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