On 2/4/25 10:03, Ron Johnson wrote:
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The query to register a visit is:
insert into restaurant_visit
select $user, current_date, restaurant_id, $rating
from restaurant where name = $restaurant_name
It is now completely unclear what it means to change the
name of the restaurant for already registered visits.
Is it still the same restaurant with a different name or a
different restaurant?
Or let say someone swaps names of two restaurants.
That means a user that goes to the same restaurant every day
would register visits to two different restaurants!
Valid concerns, which means that you add a new restaurant
record when the name changes.
And there goes your unique index on phone number :)
I don't think I'd ever do that, since phone numbers can get reassigned.
Capital-L Large and old businesses probably don't even have unique indices on SSN.
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