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Raheel S.'s avatar
Raheel S.
Explorer | Level 3
11 years ago

Offtopic: To Check or Not to check for duplication. (DBDatastores)

This is purely off topic. Not dropbox related at all, but really this is a sync design question. (if this is against the rules, My apologies to the mods). I've been struggling with an idea to avoi...
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Steve M.'s avatar
Steve M.
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11 years ago

Do you consider two records with the same ID but different text to be "the same" or not? (Is it a "duplicate" for both to exist?)

If the answer is "yes," then I think what you're doing should work well already. If the answer is "no," then you need to change your data model. (You should probably model editing an existing record as a delete and then an insert of a new record.)

I don't think anyone but you will be able to answer this question, since we don't know what your app is or does. :-)

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