Tutorial on Best Practice in Application Development - Reference Data
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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