On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> On Thursday 09 October 2008 14:45:44 Dean Landolt wrote:
> > If it's an old table, can't you just do a select distinct to get out the
> > relevant data and just stick it somewhere more suitable? If there's
> nothing
> > else relevant there, why bother wiring SA up to it on every load? It
> > couldn't be that hard to renormalize the data and put it in the place it
> > belongs (wherever that is)?
>
> I could, but I don't want to have to re-synch it constantly.
>
> Yes, it would be phenomenally difficult to renormalize the data, as a
> rather
> large 20-year-old application runs against the current table layout.
>
> So, no way to trick TG/SA into using a foreign key that isn't really a
> proper
> foreign key?
> --
> Kirk Strauser
>

SA lets you map to arbitrary selects -- couldn't you join to a select
distinct from that groupcodes table?

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