Wouldn't the term "junction" tell you what you need to know about this table?

"Junction", "join table", "intersection table" - really, you are going to judge someone's competency based on which flavor of a synonym they use?

Why downmod him so? His implication that the term "junction table" is nonstandard terminology is correct.

Despite 45 years in IT and a good 25 years of relational databases, I don't recall having heard (or read) the term "junction table" in a technical discussion. A cursory Google search indicates it may be recent terminology from the Microsoft corner of the universe.

  Why downmod him so?

Probably because many here don't like someone badmouthing another over something so small.

I don't think I've ever heard the term either. However, in the context I don't think it's that difficult to work out what is meant.

You just added that to Wikipedia now didn't you :-)

Easiest edit: 18:07, 18 February 2006

You "looked the word up online" just now and feel qualified to judge whether or not someone is a qualified interviewer?

EDIT: Meh, I have been trolled.

I hadn't seen the Perl6 junctions before... that's an utterly awesome language feature o_O

I really need to take a close look at Perl 6 some time.