Many-to-many relations in RDBMS databases

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What is the best way of handling many-to-many relations in a RDBMS database like mySQL?

Have tried using a pivot table to keep track of the relationships, but it leads to either one of the following:

Normalization gets left behind
Columns that is empty or null

What approach have you taken in order to support many-to-many relationships?

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