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Created on May 19, 2025

RELATED IDEAS

RDS Hierarchies - Child and Parent Duplicates

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We have a requirement to load states/provinces/districts (children) for all countries (parent). The same state could exist in multiple countries. e.g., BADEN in Germany and BADEN in Switzerland. Both are valid, but CP4D sees them as duplicates.

Then we have the case where we have a child state, GEORGIA, and a country, GEORGIA. The child state has a parent of UNITED STATES, while the country GEORGIA has no parent.

Additional information can be found in the attached word doc. Work arounds considered by the team include:

  1. Use the parent (country) as part of the composite key – not feasible because countries don’t have parents and composite keys are mandatory.

  2. Change the code to make it unique – not feasible because it would require code changes in multiple system in multiple countries

  3. Add a dummy composite key – possibility but would require careful rework on a table with roughly 70 000 codes.



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