Hello,

Does anyone have a solution for the following design problem:

We have five data sources of customer information that feed into an
order system.  A business requirement has arisen to create a common
customer profile that would somehow tie the disparate datasources back
to the common customer profile.

Our data architect has suggested creating a table that has a unique
sequence primary key and columns for each of the 5 data sources that
would be the foreign keys back to the customer information in the 5
data sources.  If a 6th data source was created (which is highly
possible), we would need to alter this "common" table and add a sixth
column

Is that a good approach?  Something just doesn't feel right to me and I
am wondering if any of you have experienced this problem before.

Your thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Jim M.

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