On Tuesday, February 4, 2025, Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Feb 2025, David G. Johnston wrote: > > 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, > > The industrytypes table has 26 rows, the statustypes table has 8 rows. Your > explanation suggests that for this database adding a PK to each table adds > little, if anything. > It’s the FK side where the cost savings are experienced. David J.
