Question

I have an application with multiple "pick list" entities, such as used to populate choices of dropdown selection boxes. These entities need to be stored in the database. How do one persist these entities in the database?

Should I create a new table for each pick list? Is there a better solution?

Answer 1

Well, you could do something like this:

PickListContent  IdList  IdPick  Text   1       1       Apples 1       2       Oranges 1       3       Pears 2       1       Dogs 2       2       Cats 

and optionally..

PickList  Id    Description 1     Fruit 2     Pets