A quick question

[risoknop]

I would like to ask what is the best way to handle categories in a content managements system.

Is the best way to have a separate table in the database just for the categories?

And finally, how to track to which categories an article is assigned in table that contains articles? The problem is, an article can be assigned to more than one category - so a column in articles table won't be enough for that.

I have been thinking about some smart solution for this but I haven't found any.