I have three tables in my database. News, reviews and tutorials. I would like to implement tagging functionality.
I have done this before by having a tag table to define my tags, and a lookup table which has the type (news, tutorial, review), itemId and the tagId.
This has worked fine, however for my new site, I want to have PK FK relationships between the tables (as I am using linq to entities).
How can I do this? The tag lookup table cant be the f开发者_运维百科oreign key for news, reviews and tutorials because when I add an row to the lookup table, a value will need to exist for all three types!
Whats the best way to go about this?
you could try this:
News
NewsID int auto increment/identity pk
....
Reviews
ReviewID int auto increment/identity pk
....
Tutotials
TutorialID int auto increment/identity pk
....
Tags
TagID int auto increment/identity pk
.....
TagUsage
TagUsageID int auto increment/identity pk
TagID fk to Tags.TagID
NewsID allows nulls fk to News.NewsID
ReviewID allows nulls fk to Reviews.ReviewID
TutorialID allows nulls fk to Tutotials.TutorialID
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