Database design for Tagging multiple types of entities

Question

I\'m currently designing a database schema that\'s used to store recipes. In this database there are different types of entities that I want to be able to tag (ingredients, reci

Answer 1

I think you're on the right track. You have described it really good, you have a couple of different entities. You could create a table called entities witch contains all the common attributes (if there is any). So for example

Entity

• EntityId
• Name

Ingredient

• EntityId
• Amount

RecipeIssuer

• EntityId
• SomeOtherInformation

Now you can have a table to tag entities.