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Asked: 2026-06-01T16:44:43+00:00

I have a table A with column, ‘properties’. I have another table B with

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I have a table A with column, ‘properties’. I have another table B with columns name, description. Is there any way in a RDBMS to have a schema where A.properties can point to multiple records in table B? For example:

A.properties --> [<B instance#1>, <B instance#2>, ...]

Can this be done? Is there a conventional and/or elegant way to do it?

I don’t want to resort to NoSQL if I don’t have to…and even then from what I’ve read, it is not possible to have relations in NoSQL (at least for MongoDB).

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  1. Editorial Team

    Yes, this is quite normal. One way would be to put the primary key of A in a column in B. The other way is to create a third, ‘linking’ table that links A with multiple Bs.

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