Two different tables or just one with bool column?

Question

We have two tables: OriginalDocument and ProcessedDocument. In the first one we put an original, not processed document. After it\'s validated and processed (converted to our XM

Answer 1

What shape are your queries? Do you frequently wish to deal with a group (all?) documents, irrespective of whether they're valid? Or does every query only every concern valid (or invalid) documents.

Or do you wish to deal with groups (irrespective of validity), but wish to frequently perform additional work with valid documents. That may point to a base table and an additional table containing the valid document columns?