Ganga-236835 (4/25/2013)
Also, I should point out that the many to many relationship I refer to is not the standard many to many model. In a one to many model, a person exists once and a phone record exists X times. In the model I am describing, the phone number exists once per object of different types (person, manager, staff, etc), but since it is not tied to a specific object type, I have called this the "complex many to many relationship" as I do not know how else to describe this model.G.
Personally I think this over complicates this greatly. The number of rows sharing the same phone number is likely going to be relatively small. There will be a performance hit to normalize to this point. It also adds a little more complexity which to me seems overkill.
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