Comments on: Business and Application Logic, Part 2 http://www.tarkblog.org/general/228 The personal writings of Caleb and Annie Tennis Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:54:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Bean http://www.tarkblog.org/general/228#comment-493 Bean Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:53:12 +0000 http://www.tarkblog.org/?p=228#comment-493 'has_many_needs_most_recent' sounds a whole lot like 'order by date desc limit 1'. I deal a lot with employee records and dynamic data, and the way we keep it all straight is to completely abstract the employees information and assign them a Personal ID or PID (employee_id in your case). Names change, SSN's are entered wrong, etc. PID allows me to keep it all linked. ‘has_many_needs_most_recent’ sounds a whole lot like ‘order by date desc limit 1′.

I deal a lot with employee records and dynamic data, and the way we keep it all straight is to completely abstract the employees information and assign them a Personal ID or PID (employee_id in your case). Names change, SSN’s are entered wrong, etc. PID allows me to keep it all linked.

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