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February 22, 2004 at 10:01 pm
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I have been using a similar concept (since the days of COBOL 🙂 i.e. 1982 ), having a table ot CODE_TYPES and another one of CODES. I don't use identity columns if I can help it, using 'natural' keys wherever possible.