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@Henweigh99,
I can't quite put my finger on why, but I get a little bit of "code smell" from this approach. Maybe it's because using a global join table for all relationships is counter to every app and example I've ever seen. I'm also wondering if some many-to-many relationships might be made more confusing (which is the parent and which is the child might not be clear cut), and keeping consistent throughout your application might be a challenge.
I can see wanting to remove some of the "noise" of all the individual join tables typically found in databases. Personally, however, I prefer to let the database do as much of the "heavy lifting" as possible, including managing the referential integrity.
Are all of your relationships many-to-many? If some are one-to-many, you can use a foreign-key column in the child tables that stores the primary-key of the parent table - and the database can still manage referential integrity. That may reduce the need for some of the join tables.
Regardless, if you decide to proceed with the global join table you need to make absolutely sure your indexes on that table are tuned properly or you'll likely take a performance hit.
-Carl V.
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so that the user would have a choice of what demonstration they
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