Question

What’s the best way to design a table that reference multiple records from another table?

For example, there is a table called diary that stores subjects, descriptions and keywords, then another table called DiaryCompilation for combining all selected records into a book by just referencing the id from the diary.

What’s the best way to create the DiaryCompilation?

I was thinking of consisting it into two fields: id, references

where in all selected records are placed in references, but is it a good practice or are there better approaches?

Answer 1

<--- Each record is a new entry of diary --->
Diary: ID, Subject, Description, Keywords 

<--- Single record per compilation for summary info --->
DiaryCompilation: ID, Title 

<--- Pages of Diary Compilation --->
DiaryCompilationEntries: DiaryCompilationID, DiaryID