# Whether or not to maintain a read-only copy of the originally loaded transcript
Database Design
whether suggested mark ups are stored separately in a different table. Reason: because these are sparse and not to be mixed with the main data (not jsut irrelevant... to be omitted) for any application e.g. admin or query... that uses the mark ups.. irrelevance means if it is there it is okay. i can ignore it. but for me if it is there in admin application and also query app it is a problem. so this is why i have been insisting. because at any time you forget ...
see if i am doing some admin work. like making versions sqeuences... now this one appear.. i will need to redo the whole thing.... and in some cases you forget to to build in this check then we may miss this chekc completly..