>>ever forget a common word or term you've used a million times? Geez - I'm getting old I guess .... anyway ....
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>>what's the proper term for the table (entity) that serves as the "in between relation table" in facilitating a many-to-many relationship between two other tables?
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>>TIA!
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>I use junction table, but the word for the relational problem that is solved by a junction table is called a 'gerund'. Realizing that I had not seen this term used for quite some time, I had to search, and found the following interesting page...
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>http://www.comptechnews.com/~reaster/dbdesign.html

thanks - I'll check it out ...