help with normalization and optimization

admin

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Hi I am making a 'bookmarks' database and pretty much have it sussed using two tables but I know that it might be better to use three but can't grasp it.

Here are the tables:

links table
id|cat_id|title|url (PK=id, cat_id)

catagories table
cat_id|name|parent (PK=cat_id, name)

I was told that to allow duplicate catagories and still index the 'name' I'd need three tables. As you might see I'm a little lost so any help would be much appreciated.


Cheers


Nick
 
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