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Asked: May 20, 20262026-05-20T10:55:33+00:00 2026-05-20T10:55:33+00:00

Is it a bad ideea to have 2 keys for identifying a valid information

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Is it a bad ideea to have 2 keys for identifying a valid information ?

Company information table serves the car wash table and also the car service table

Let’s say We have a table that has the categories

=== Category Table ===

id
category_name
active
position
path

Then i have the table that serves the two different tables.

==== Company Information ====

id
parent_id
category_id
company_name
company_adress
bank_name

The two tables that are from different categories

==== Car wash table ===

id ( this will be the parent id in company information )
category_id
...other_fields

=== Car service table ===

id ( this will be the parent id in company information )
category_id
...other_fields
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    2026-05-20T10:55:34+00:00Added an answer on May 20, 2026 at 10:55 am

    There is nothing fundamentally wrong with having the same same key in one table referenced by multiple foreign keys in other tables. It is quite normal.

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