RE: data modelling question - job vs. job history table

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>Jared.Still_at_radisys.com
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>What you are doing is not exactly data modeling: you are designing a database.

I stand corrected. I am actually looking at a denormalized set of tables we have here (there's a table with 52 columns: OBSERVATION1, OBSERVATION2, ... OBSERVATION52) and playing aroung with a different design.

But perhaps I need to step back and look at it from the data model point of view as you suggest. (Don't tell me I have to go in my modelling tool Your suggestions sounded good to me. I didn't think of a CONFIG subtype.

I have a tendency to go straight to the physical model anyway. I guess I should look at the "Conceptual Data Model" option in my design tool. :)

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