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I have two tables:
- Attendees
- Events
Normally, I would create a mapping table ‘EventAttendeeMap‘ to link these tables into a many to many relationship.
Is this the best way of doing so?
Should I store the list of AttendeeIds in an xml column instead on the Events table?
I am using .NET 3.5/4 with Linq as the DAL (although I think this is irrelevant to the design question being asked, possibly).
Interested to see what people’s opinions are.
Thanks.
Dave
A mapping table is definitely the best way to do it – the Entity Framework will convert the mapping table into a collection of entities on both sides and the table itself will essentially disappear.