database / table setup

wxdqz

New Member
Hi there,

I want to setup a restaurant portal for my local area.

But I already have some problems setting up / structuring the tables.

So far I've got

-a restaurant table ( just the names and address )

-category table ( i.e. italian, german, ... )

-area table

-relation table ( mainly for linking the restaurant tbl and category tbl )


But wouldn't it be a better idea to directly put the category data in the restaurant table ( redundancy? ). What happens if the relations table gets damaged ? Then I wouldn't know anymore which restaurant name belongs to which category.


thanx for any tips / guides
 
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