Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 10/21/05 00:23

corey lawson (corey.lawson@ayeteatea.net) writes:
> Erland Sommarskog wrote:
>
>> The two tables serves different purposes. The table with all the dates
>> puts no attributes on the dates, and is only a help table for some
>> operations. The other table lists only holidays. Neither that table
>> has any other data beside the primary key, beside auditing data. But
>> there is an important difference between the two tables, let's see if
>> you can spot it!
>
> Yes, using the second table with just holidays is a PITA. Flagging dates
> in the calendar as various holidays is far easier to use.

No. Well, in the case you only care about one country, it is. We need
to keep track of non-business days in several countries.




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