On Thursday, July 12, 2012 1:08:21 PM UTC-6, Jamie Hodge wrote:
>
> I was asking if the records and joins tables could be structured in a 
> manner that better embodied the business logic, i.e. a way in which it was 
> impossible for an approval record to exist without an accompanying item and 
> author pair.


I would add item_id and author_id to authorizations. Add the appropriate 
unique indexes for those. And setup a "on delete cascade".

Doing this in the application/model code results in extra database queries 
than necessary, so I'd agree that you'd want this in the db schema/code.

Joe 

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