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  • April 26, 2013 at 7:51 am

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    davidandrews13 (4/26/2013)

    is it possible, or even considered OK, to put all your different Members tables (Clients, Staff, Managers) into one table called 'Clients', and have a Foreign Key to a Table called ClientType which would detail whether they were Internal Staff, External Contacts etc.?

    then your Phone Table would only have to link to that one Clients Table.

    Client, Staff, Manager are attributes of an entity 'Person' so I'd agree with this suggestion.

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