Tutorial on Best Practice in Application Development - Reference Data

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  • Standards for Reference Data
  • Where we use Reference Data, it is good practice to comply with relevant national or international Standards.
  • For example, in the Addresses Table, we can see a field called 'iso_country_code'.
  • The ISO prefix emphasises the fact that we have adopted conventions endorsed by the International Standards Organisation,('ISO').
  • Then, if we want to use our Database Schema on an international scale, our approach will be 'future proof'.



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