Storing information for drop-down menus
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Suppose you're building an HTML form and you want to have 2 or more drop-down menus, where after picking an option from the first, the 2nd menu is populated, and so forth. For example, choosing a country
would bring up a list of provinces
for that country, which would in turn list the cities
.
How would you store that sort of information in a database? Would you have a table Countries(id, name)
, Provinces(id, country_id, name)
, Cities(id, province_id, name)
or would you have just one big denormalized table Entries(country, province, city)
? (Why?)
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