• Carl Federl (5/8/2010)


    Paul Berzukov posted

    totally agree with Don Peterson's position on the matter but please note neither original poster nor anybody else in this thread is suggesting the creation of a general purpose lookup code table.

    Paul, take a look at the example data provided under "Status Master Data" and you will see "table name" as one of the columns, hence Don Peterson's article on a flawed design is applicable.

    You are right Carl.

    I was focusing in answering poster's specific question.

    I appreciate you going deeper and looking at what poster was actually doing.

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