In the last post we looked at the use case for master data in which the consuming application expected a single unique representative record for each unique entity. This would be valuable in situations for batch accesses like SQL queries where aggregates are associated with one and only one entity record.
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Master Data Access Use Case #2: The Composite Record
Santa's gift assignment problem
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