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

This sounds like a many-to-many relationship, not a 1-to-many. I think you'll want to use a table between those two that allows you to define 1-to-many on either side of that. Check this out...

http://www.tekstenuitleg.net/en/articles/database_design_tutorial/8