I'm afraid this borders on sql/db question material vs. specific mysql
material, but it stems from what I've read in the O'Reilly mysql book.
If I have a db, which has two tables that have about 15 fields each.
table_a table_b
a_id b_id
a_field1 b_field1
. .
. .
a_field14 b_field14
and they have a many to many relationship between them. Should I
a. Create a normalized junction entity.?
table_ab
ab_id
a_id
b_id
or do I
b. Just do a JOIN between the tables?
If choice a., how do I do the indexing so that searches for b_id based
on a a_id value are fast, and vice-versa?
thanks
--Dylan Shea
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