How do you deal with m..n relationships in a relational database?

Question

Let\'s look at an example - books. A book can have 1..n authors. An author can have 1..m books. What is a good way to represent all of the authors of a book?

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Answer 1

I think you're pretty much there. You need a Books table, an Authors table, and then a "authors_of_books" table with the primary key of the book, the primary key of the author, and a "cited as" text field showing how that particular author was cited on that book.