That sounds very plausible and, indeed, I have join tables throughout my apps. This is why I put the proviso in, "correct me if I'm wrong." :) My understandi

That sounds very plausible and, indeed, I have join tables throughout my apps. This is why I put the proviso in, "correct me if I'm wrong." :) My understanding was that hardcore relational database guys would say that join operations are necessary when the data's totally denormalized, but having a join table wasn't necessarily a best practice because now you've got an additional table that could potentially get out of sync.