Normalization two types of customers into one table
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I am trying to model a sales situation where you can sell to a person or to a business with a contact person. I cannot figure out the proper way to do this.
It seems like 2 tables would be incorrect. But how do I model a Customer
table that can be a business or a person? Would I just have a boolean
for "business" and an additional "business_name" field that would default to Null. But then I have to do an if/then on the columns and that seems like poor design.
Any advice, direction, or links is appreciated.
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