Question

I’m developing an web application that will be available in two languages and more languages could be added in the future.

I was designing the tables and I found a problem; Here’s the structure:

Table: Tag;
Columns: TagId (PK)  {this column it's referenced by other tables like Posts, Users, etc...}

Table: TagLocale
Columns: TagLocaleId (PK), TagId(FK), LanguageId (FK), Name (the tag string)

It’s wrong having a table with only one column, right?
Anyone could help me here?

Thanks in advance,

Renan

Answer 1

It’s perfectly OK to have a table with only one column.

It means “this tag does exist”.

It will come in very handy when you’ll be building tag statistics (given that MySQL does not support full joins).