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In systems analysis, a many-to-many relationship is a type of cardinality that refers to the relationship between two entities (see also entity–relationship model) A and B in which A may contain a parent record for which there are many children in B and vice versa. For instance, think of A as Authors, and B as Books. An Author can write several Books, and a Book can be written by several Authors. Because most database management systems only support one-to-many relationships, it is necessary to implement such relationships physically via a third junction table (also called ''cross-reference table''), say, AB with two one-to-many relationships A -> AB and B -> AB. In this case the logical primary key for AB is formed from the two foreign keys (i.e. copies of the primary keys of A and B). In web application frameworks such as CakePHP and Ruby on Rails, a many-to-many relationship between database tables in a model is sometimes referred to as a HasAndBelongsToMany (HABTM) relationship.〔(3.7.6.5 hasAndBelongsToMany (HABTM) ). Cakephp.org〕 == See also == * Associative Entities * One-to-one (data model) * One-to-many (data model) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Many-to-many (data model)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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