I would like to get the point of view from you guys out there who has had a lot of database experience.
While busy looking into a database that have a lot of issues I have found the following scenario :
- Let's call the 3 tables in question tables a,b & c. - Currently table a has got a FK referencing table b - table b contains only 1 field called id which is the PK and also a FK referencing table c - table c is once again a table with a couple of fields.
My question on this is, why create the linking table?
Surely the linking table can be removed and the data referenced directly between tables a & c?
Is there a specific reason why this would need to be done?