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A Pattern for Email Address storage and retrieval

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Email addresses are very prevalent in IT systems and often used as a natural primary key. The repetitive storage of email addresses in multiple tables is a bad design choice. Following is a design pattern to store email addresses in a single table and to retrieve them efficiently.

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2017-09-15 (first published: )

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