Master Hibernate and JPA with Spring Boot in 100 Steps - Step 34 - ManyToMany Mapping - Table Design

The video tutorial explains the concept of many-to-many relationships between entities, specifically courses and students. It highlights the challenges of storing such relationships directly in tables and introduces the concept of join tables as a solution. Join tables help establish many-to-many relationships by storing foreign keys from both related tables, ensuring efficient data management and retrieval.

What is the relationship between courses and students as described in the text?

Why is it not a good design to store multiple student details directly in the course entity?

Explain the concept of join tables and their purpose in establishing many-to-many relationships.

What are the foreign keys mentioned in the context of the join table?

How would you design a join table to represent the relationship between students and courses?