Database Design Question - Categories / Subcategories

Question

I have a question for how I would design a few tables in my database. I have a table to track Categories and one for Subcategories:

TABLE Category
    Catego         


        

Answer 1

Attach tags to the products in instead of a category hierarchy. It is much more flexible.

create table product (id, name,...)
create table tag (id, name, description)
create table product_tag (product_id, tag_id)