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if it's a company, then the company is represented by a user
a user can represent 0,1 or many companies in different groups
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How to use a relational database to store all users

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Why would you split into User and Account?

What is Group standing for? It's relating to Account and Company now, that I'm thinking to GroupType or
separated tables AccountGroup and CompanyGroup

Above all, based on your current requirements, following my suggestions:

https://dbdiagram.io/d/5d6f2704ced98361d6de2d0d

a user can be part of multiple accounts and have different roles (admin or not)

Tables: User (Id), Account (Id) and UserAccount (UserId, AccountId)

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an account can have one or many groups

Tables: Group (Id) and AccountGroup (AccountId, GroupId)

each group can have one or many members / a member can be part of many groups

Tables: Member (Id) and MemberGroup (MemberId, GroupId)

a member can be either an user or a legal entity (company)

Tables: Company (Id, MemberId), User (add MemberId)

if it's a company, then the company is represented by a user / a user can represent 0,1 or many
companies in different groups

Tables: Company (add RepresentUserId), Group (add RepresentUserId)

Please noted that this is for an idea, not a fullfill solution. I hope this help you much.
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answered Sep 4 '19 at 3:31

Dat Nguyen
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Thanks for the reply Dan. A group is just grouping members. See it like departments. An account can have multiple groups
and groups have members (which can be a company represented by a user OR a user). I can't use the relationship User
(MemberId) and Company(id, MemberId) nor Company (RepresentUserId) because it means company will have just on
representative only but in fact the company could be in 2 separate accounts and groups with different representatives. See
my updated diagram in the first post for a better understanding
–  Bidibule
Sep 4 '19 at 12:17

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