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Relational Design - One table, two foreign keys or Two tables, one foreign key each

I would certainly recommend B in most cases. Both A and C leave open lots of room for inconsistency. Enforcing that exactly one of two columns is NOT NULL (for case A) is quite a pain. If you need uni …
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