VbzCart/tables/cust

About

• Purpose: Core customer table – all the other customer data tables point to this one
• Fields:
  • ID_Repl: If non-null, then this customer ID has been consolidated with the customer whose ID is in ID_Repl; whenever/wherever possible, replace occurrences of this ID with the value of the corresponding ID_Repl.
  • WhenCreated: This should be NOT NULL on systems with no legacy data
• History:
  • 2009-07-09 moved to separate wiki page; no design changes

SQL

<mysql>CREATE TABLE `core_custs` (

 `ID`          INT          NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
 `ID_Name`     INT          NOT NULL   COMMENT "cust_names.ID of default name",
 `ID_Addr`     INT      DEFAULT NULL   COMMENT "cust_addrs.ID of default address",
 `Notes`       VARCHAR(255)            COMMENT "admin-entered notes about this customer",
 `ID_Repl`     INT      DEFAULT NULL   COMMENT "core_custs.ID of replacement",
 `WhenCreated` DATETIME   /*NOT NULL*/ COMMENT "when this record was created",
 `WhenChanged` DATETIME DEFAULT NULL   COMMENT "when this record was last edited",
 PRIMARY KEY(`ID`)

) ENGINE = MYISAM;</mysql>