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This document also provides a "primary use" column which tries to indicate the SSP subsystem that makes heaviest use of the data in any given table. This is intended to help provide implementation prioritization guidance at an implementation level, most dependency consideration when trying to decide which tables to "support first", inter-table dependency considerations aside. E.g., while external_faculty_course may be listed ahead of external_course, but these tables have no even logical dependency relationship. So if your deployment is more interested in the MAP subsystem than in the Early Alert subsystem, you needn't populate external_faculty_course before populating external_course.
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