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Re: referential integrity and defaults, DB design or trick



Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote:
The default property (that is actually made by several fields) in my
case is not completely homogeneous with the others, because it has a
double meaning.
It is cleaner to split the meanings and the data.

It usually is. A lot of the design decisions you can regret a year or two down the line are from trying to use one value for two purposes.

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  Richard Huxton
  Archonet Ltd



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