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The development of the conceptual schema and/or the logical model and/or the physical settings of a database.

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Does this break normalization?

The trick here is modeling the business practice. For example: Is it possible that the order fulfilling company (owner of the database) may fulfill orders from a company large enough to have departmen …
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Composite primary key plus a separate (surrogate) id column for foreign key references

I would recommend using it (town_id) as the only primary key (provided my first comment is true about the increment and uniqueness), and the Region/Country IDs should only be foreign keys. This would …
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