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Re: normalization question: "customer" is either a company or an individual
Posted by: Peter Brawley
Date: April 02, 2007 09:38PM

No, you're not the first person to face this problem, and a common solution is to define a customer abstractly--eg custID, custType, custDetailID--and keep the details in other tables eg persons & companies.

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normalization question: "customer" is either a company or an individual
Felix Bachofner
March 30, 2007 09:28PM
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Peter Brawley
April 02, 2007 09:38PM


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