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   Erland Sommarskog to Tony Johansson   
   Re: How to keep a history of price for d   
   15 Feb 15 22:14:59   
   
   From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Tony Johansson (johansson.andersson@telia.com) writes:   
   > I mean to put the price as a column in the sales tables doesn't solve the   
   > problem because you would overwrite the previous price.   
   >   
      
   Not sure what you mean here. Since you have month as a key, you would store   
   the price for January that year. If the price changes during the month,   
   things get a little hairy, but the price of ice cream is fairly static.   
      
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   Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
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