How to model a Many to many-relationship in code?

Question

Suppose I have 2 tables in a database. eg: Dog & Boss This is a many to many relationship, cause a boss can have more than 1 dog, and a dog can have more than 1 owner. I

Answer 1

If you have a simple many-to-many linking table with foreign keys from each table in the relationship, then you would model it as you suggest: Boss has a collection of Dogs and Dog has a collection of Bosses.

If you have a many-to-many relationship with extra data, such as Nickname, then you would model that as two one-to-many relationships. Create an entity, such as DogBoss so that Boss has a collection of DogBoss and Dog has a collection of DogBoss.