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|    Erland Sommarskog to Tony Johansson    |
|    Re: Is it really any point to have a rel    |
|    19 Feb 14 21:13:33    |
      From: esquel@sommarskog.se              Tony Johansson (johansson.andersson@telia.com) writes:       > In this example is it any point to create a separate table for warehouse.       > Is it just as good to store information such as current quantity for each       > flower that exist in the product table.       >       > I find it funny to have a table warehouse with just an Id without any more       > fields.              Most likely the warehouse have other attributes like name, address, etc.              But even we assume something that only has an ID, which in this case must       be a natural key, it should probably be a separate table, as a foreign-key       constraint to this table helps to restrict the possible values in the       column.                     --       Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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