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Asked: 2026-05-27T07:15:38+00:00

If I have two tables: *******awards ———————- aid | position | name ———————- 1

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If I have two tables:

    *******awards
    ----------------------
    aid | position | name
    ----------------------
     1      1        best game
     2      2        reached 100 points
     3      3        reached 300 points
     ................
     1000   800      logged_3_days_in_a_row

    *******users
    ----------------------
    uid | name
    ----------------------
     1    Niki
     2    Lulu33
     3    BadGirl
     .......
     1001 Zelda2012

What is the best way to make a relation between the awards table and the users? Of course I could create a user_has_awards table but I’m not sure if that’s the best way (if there are 1000 or more awards and 1000 users) to do this.

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  1. Editorial Team

    It depends on what type of relationship you want to establish. From your question I think you mean a many-to-many relationship (i.e. the same award can be given to many users and a user can have many awards). The best way to model this is indeed a third table which manages the relations between users and their awards.

    See for instance this site explaining the design pattern: http://www.tomjewett.com/dbdesign/dbdesign.php?page=manymany.php

    PS. you should start accepting some of the answers to your questions to encourage people to answer your questions.

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