Re: What is a Bridge Table

From: Paul Brewer <paul_at_paul.brewers.org.uk>
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 10:28:52 -0000
Message-ID: <3bdd08be_1@mk-nntp-1.news.uk.worldonline.com>

Very good! I found the title interesting, since the two newsgroups to which I subscribe are comp.databases.oracle server and rec.games.bridge :)

Seriously though, in rdbms terms I'd never heard the expression and am interested in the terminology - I have always referred to these as _intersect_ tables. Am I right to assume the terms are interchangeable (I'm from the U.K by the way)?

Paul

"Stephen T. Parfitt" <steve.parfitt_at_sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:3BD41AA3.6883C4FE_at_sympatico.ca...
> (1) Cards: a folding card table, sometimes with an device for
> automatically shuffling a pack of cards.
> (2) Telecommunications: routing table in a bridge - i.e. a list of which
> addresses should be forwarded across the bridge
> (3) RDBMS: a many-to-many association table containing keys only with no
> 'real' data. See
> http://www.intelligententerprise.com/010101/celko.shtml for a good
> explanation and example.
>
> Gil Wright wrote:
> >
> > Can someone tell me what a bridge table is? Thanks - Gil
>
> --
> Stephen Parfitt
> (416) 762-7148
> steve.parfitt_at_sympatico.ca
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