[GENERAL] Difficulty modelling sales taxes
От | Frank Millman |
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Тема | [GENERAL] Difficulty modelling sales taxes |
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Hi all
I want to model sales taxes in a flexible manner. I need one table to define tax categories (e.g. VAT) and a subsidiary table to define tax codes within each category (e.g. Standard Rate).
CREATE TABLE tax_categories (
row_id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
category NVARCHAR NOT NULL,
description NVARCHAR NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT _tax_cats UNIQUE (category));
CREATE TABLE tax_codes (
row_id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
category_id INT NOT NULL REFERENCES tax_categories,
code NVARCHAR NOT NULL,
description NVARCHAR NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT _tax_codes UNIQUE (category_id, code));
Now I want to assign tax codes to product codes. As each product could potentially have more than one tax code, I need a many-to-many table.
My difficulty is that each product can have tax codes from different tax categories, but it cannot have more than one tax code from the same tax category. I am not sure how to model this ‘uniqueness’.
The best I can come up with is this -
CREATE TABLE prod_tax_codes (
product_id INT NOT NULL REFERENCES prod_codes,
category_id INT NOT NULL REFERENCES tax_categories,
tax_code NVARCHAR NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT _prod_tax_code_1 UNIQUE (product_id, category_id),
CONSTRAINT _prod_tax_code_2 FOREIGN KEY (category_id, tax_code) REFERENCES tax_codes (category_id, code));
It is a bit ugly, because I have to use the ‘NVARCHAR code’ column from tax_codes, not the primary key, but I think it would work.
Does anyone have any better ideas?
Thanks
Frank Millman
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