On Tuesday, February 4, 2025, Ron Johnson <ronljohnso...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 9:28 AM Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> > wrote: > >> Should lookup tables have a numeric FK column as well as the description >> column? >> > > Does your lookup table just have one column? (That's what your question > seems to imply, but that makes no sense, since the whole point of a lookup > table is to store some sort of a code in the "child" table instead of the > whole text of the description.) > The point of a lookup table is to provide a unique list of authoritative values for some purpose. Kinda like an enum. But having the label serve as the unique value is reasonable - we only add surrogates for optimization. David J.
