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On 01/06/10 06:19, Steven.Prentice@nextgen.net wrote:
> Excellent proposal Randall, thats an awesome idea, but what if my store
> stock a 200 000 of each item - I think your idea defeats the purpose of
> storing documents a bit, dont you? I have opted to base my documents on
> each product, inside product I have a field called stores which contains
> an array of 3 stores each with a name and item count.. and see if I can
> tackle it that way. Thoughts?
> S
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If your store has 200,000 of an item is stock at any one time, I
rather suspect it does not sell them one at a time!

If you sell the item in packs, then the pack is the stock keeping
unit, and the database should have one record per pack.

For metered products, different answers apply. I rather suspect you will
have to keep running totals.

regards

Ian