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Re: Is it good to have a price column imn OrderLine table

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Tony Johansson (johansson.andersson@telia.com) writes:
> Now to my question is it good to have a price column in the OrderLine
> table. ? 
> If we have a price will that mean the total price per line such as if we
> have ordered 3 shoes and this specific shoes cost 10 the price field in
> OrderLine would be 30 

All this depends on business rules, but yes, I would expect a price column
in a Orderline table. That gives the price for that specific order. The customer may have gotten a discount. And more importantly, if you change the
price for the product, you don't want that to affect old orders.

Although, in your example I would store 10 in the Price column in the
Orderline table. If it was called Amount I would store 30. But that's more of a language issue.


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Is it good to have a price column imn OrderLine table "Tony Johansson" <johansson.andersson@telia.com> - 2014-02-26 23:26 +0100
  Re: Is it good to have a price column imn OrderLine table Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> - 2014-02-27 08:06 +0000
    Re: Is it good to have a price column imn OrderLine table rja.carnegie@gmail.com - 2014-02-27 03:22 -0800
      Re: Is it good to have a price column imn OrderLine table Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> - 2014-02-27 11:50 +0000
  Re: Is it good to have a price column imn OrderLine table Mark D Powell <markp28665@gmail.com> - 2014-02-27 11:23 -0800

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