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Re: option value referencing
Posted by: Peter Brawley
Date: March 15, 2015 11:59AM

Best practice is to make the database as autonomous as possible, so it'd be best to encode the meaning of '21' in a lookup table or an Enum column; you might prefer the latter if it's certain the coding will never change and if the list is short.

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March 15, 2015 11:20AM
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